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.  .  .  Those  he  loves  that  underprop 
With  daily  virtues  heaven's  top. 
And  bear  the  falling  sky  with  ease, 
Unfrowning  caryatides. 

Our  Lady  of  tie  Snows. 


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PREFATORY    NOTE 


"I  I /"E  on  this  side  the  water  think  of  Robert 
^  ^  Louis  Stevenson  oftenest,  perhaps,  in  his 
island  home,  working  —  this  indefatigable  "idler," 
as  he  called  himself — from  six  o'clock  in  the 
morning  until  four  in  the  afternoon ;  dictating 
with  his  hands  when  voice  as  well  as  strength 
failed ;  and  when  he  was  better,  moved  by  a  rest- 
less and  superabundant  energy,  the  last  to  retire  at 
night,  and  the  first  to  rise  in  the  morning.  There 
is  something  peculiarly  appealing  in  this  isolation, 
as  we  fancy  the  lonely  exile  pacing  through  his 
nightly  walk  in  the  unlighted  darkness  while  all  of 
his  household  slept,  and  rising  in  the  dusk  of  the 
Samoan  morning  with  no  cheerful,  stirring  sound 
of  life  to  greet  him  but  the  monotonous  chirp  of  a 
single  lone  bird. 

It  touches  us  like  the  recollection  of  the  sleep- 
less nights  he  tells  of  in  Nuits  Blanches^  when  the 
delicate  child  was  held  up  by  his  faithful  nurse  to 
look  out  at  the  window,  while  together  they 
wondered   if  in    other   houses   little  children  were 

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wakeful ;  and  again  and  again  he  asked,  "  When 
will  the  carts  come  in  ?  " 

Though  he  worked  on  faithfully  and  cheerfully 
to  the  very  last,  finding  interest  in  the  strange 
peoples  about  him,  and  sending  back  his  messages 
to  the  world  he  had  bidden  farewell,  we  think  his 
brave  spirit  must  have  sometimes  cried  out  in  that 
long  night  of  banishment,  "  When  will  the  carts 
come  in  ?  " 

And  thinking  of  him  thus,  our  affection  goes 
out  to  him  even  as  before  that  fateful  December 
day  at  Valaima  and  the  making  of  the  lonely  grave 
on  Mount  Vaea;  and  there  has  been  gathered  here 
certain  of  his  sayings  into  a  sort  of  little  store- 
house of  loving  memory.  The  moral  reflections 
dropped  by  the  way  are  the  personal  side  of  a  man, 
and  as  much  as  any  known  writer  Stevenson  has 
been  loved  for  his  personality.  This  little  volume 
has  been  compiled  for  his  friends  —  the  selections 
are  such  as  would  be  the  remarks  made  in  conver- 
sation with  spirits  congenial  and  sympathetic,  and 
so  appeal  to  every  one  alike ;  each  has  the  same 
message    for  all,  each    is    the   word   of   cherished 

recollection. 

F.  L.  T. 
Atlanta,  Ga. 


[   viii   J 


JANUARY 


JANUARY  FIRST 

EVERY  sin  is  our  last ;  every  first  of  January 
a  remarkable  turning-point  in  our  career. 

Virginibus  Puerisque, 

JANUARY  SECOND 

By  all  means  begin  your  folio  ;  even  if  the  doctor 
does  not  give  you  a  year,  even  if  he  hesitates 
about  a  month,  make  one  brave  push  and  see 
what  can  be  finished  in  a  week.  It  is  not  only 
in  finished  undertakings  that  we  ought  to  honour 
useful  labour.  A  spirit  goes  out  of  the  man  who 
means  execution,  which  outlives  the  most  un- 
timely ending.  All  who  have  meant  good  work 
with  their  whole  hearts,  have  done  good  work, 
although  they  may  die  before  they  have  the  time 
to  sign  it.  Every  heart  that  has  beat  strong  and 
cheerfuUv  has  left  a  hopeful  impulse  behind  it  in 
the  world,  and  bettered  the  tradition  of  mankind. 

Aes  Triplex. 


[    I    1 


JANUARY  THIRD 

There  is  but  one  test  of  a  good  life:  that  the 
man  shall  continue  to  grow  more  difficult  about 
his  own  behaviour.  That  is  to  be  good :  there 
is  no  other  virtue  attainable. 

Discipline  of  Conscience. 

JANUARY  FOURTH 

It  is  a  commonplace,  that  we  cannot  answer  for 
ourselves  before  we  have  been  tried.  But  it  is 
not  so  common  a  reflection,  and  surely  more 
consoling,  that  we  usually  find  ourselves  a  great 
deal  braver  and  better  than  we  thought. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

JANUARY  FIFTH 

To  make  this  earth  our  hermitage, 
A  cheerful  and  a  changeful  page, 
God's  bright  and  intricate  device 
Of  days  and  seasons  doth  suffice. 

The  House  Beautiful. 

JANUARY  SIXTH 

What  do  we  owe  our  parents  ?  No  man  can 
owe  love;  none  can  owe  obedience.  We  owe,  I 
think,  chiefly  pity;  for  we  are  the  pledge  of  their 
dear  and  joyful  union,  we  have  been  the  solici- 
tude of  their  days  and  the  anxiety  of  their  nights, 
we  have  made  them,  though  by  no  will  of  ours, 
to  carry  the  burthen   of  our  sins,  sorrows,  and 


physical  infirmities ;  and  too  many  of  us  grow 

up  at  length  to  disappoint  the  purpose  of  their 

lives  and  requite  their  care  and  piety  with  cruel 

pangs. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 


JANUARY  SEVENTH 

We  are  most  of  us  attached  to  our  opinions; 

that  is  one  of  the  "  natural  affections  "  of  which 

we  hear  so  much  in  youth  ;  but  few  of  us  are 

altogether  free   from   paralysing  doubts  and 

scruples. 

Preface  to  Familiar  Studies, 


JANUARY    EIGHTH 

Restfulness  is  a  quality  for  cattle  ;  the  virtues 
arc  all  active,  life  is  alert,  and  it  is  in  repose 
that  men  prepare  themselves  for  evil. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 


JANUARY    NINTH 

A  little  society  is  needful  to  show  a  man  his 
failings;  for  if  he  lives  entirely  by  himself,  he 
has  no  occasion  to  fall,  and  like  a  soldier  in 
time  of  peace,  becomes  both  weak  and  vain. 
r,ut  a  little  solitude  must  be  used,  or  we  grow 
content  with  current  virtues  and  forget  the  ideal. 
In    society    we    lose    scrupulous    brightness    of 

[  3] 


honour;  in  solitude  we  lose  the  courage  necessary 
to  face  our  own  imperfections. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 


JANUARY    TENTH 

Fond  as  it  may  appear,  we  labour  and   refrain, 

not  for  the  rewards  of  any  single  life,  but  with 

a  timid  eye  upon  the  lives  and  memories  of  our 

successors;  and  where  no  one  is  to  succeed,  of 

his    own    family,   or   his   own   tongue,   I    doubt 

whether  Rothschilds  would  make  money  or  Cato 

practise  virtue. 

Death. 


JANUARY    ELEVENTH 

To  the  grown  person,  cold  mutton  is  cold  mut- 
ton all  the  world  over;  not  all  the  mythology 
ever  invented  by  man  will  make  it  better  or 
worse  to  him ;  the  broad  fact,  the  clamant 
reality,  of  the  mutton  carries  away  before  it 
such  seductive  figments.  But  for  the  child  it 
is  still  possible  to  weave  an  enchantment  over 
eatables ;  and  if  he  has  but  read  of  a  dish  in  a 
story-book,  it  will  be  heavenlv  manna  to  him 

for  a  week. 

ChilcTs  Play. 


[4] 


JANUARY    TWELFTH 

When  a  man  is  in  a  fair  way  and  sees  all  life 
open  in  front  of  him,  he  seems  to  himself  to 
make  a  very  important  figure  in  the  world.  .  .  . 
But  once  he  is  dead,  were  he  as  brave  as 
Hercules    or   as  wise    as    Solomon,   he    is   soon 

forgotten. 

The  Sire  de  Mal'etroit" s  Door. 

JANUARY    THIRTEENTH 

The  names  of  virtues  exercise  a  charm  on  most 
of  us ;  we  must  lay  claim  to  all  of  them,  how- 
ever incompatiblej  we  must  all  be  both  daring 
and  prudent ;  we  must  all  vaunt  our  pride  and 
go  to  the  stake   for  our  humility. 

Of  Love  and  Politics. 

JANUARY   FOURTEENTH 

Life,  my  old  shipmate,  life,  at  any  moment  and 
in  any  view,  is  as  dangerous  as  a  sinking  ship; 
and  yet  it  is  man's  handsome  fashion  to  carry 
umbrellas,  to  wear  indiarubber  overshoes,  to 
begin  vast  works,  and  to  conduct  himself  in 
every  way  as   if  he   might  hope  to  be  eternal. 

Fahle  of  the  Sinking  Ship. 

JANUARY    FIFTEENTH 

We  arc  subject  to  physical  passions  and  contor- 
tions-,  the  voice  breaks  and  changes,  and  speaks 
by    unconscious   and    winning    inflections  •,    wc 

[5  ] 


have  legible  countenances,  like  an  open  book  ; 
things  that  cannot  be  said  look  eloquently 
through  the  eyes  ;  and  the  soul,  not  locked  into 
the  body  as  a  dungeon,  dwells  ever  on  the 
threshold  with  appealing  signals. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

JANUARY   SIXTEENTH 

No  art,  it  may  be  said,  was  ever  perfect,  and 

not   many   noble,  that  has  not  been    mirthfully 

conceived.     And  no  man,  it  may  be  added,  was 

ever  anything  but  a  wet  blanket  and  a  cross  to 

his  companions  who  boasted  not  a  copious  spirit 

of  enjoyment. 

FontainebUau. 

JANUARY   SEVENTEENTH 

All  sins  are  murder,  even  as  all  life  is  war.     I 

behold  your  race,  like    starving  mariners  on  a 

raft,  plucking  crusts  out  of  the  hands  of  famine 

and  feeding  on  each  other's  lives.      I  follow  sins 

beyond  the  moment  of  their  acting;  I  find  in 

all  that  the   last  consequence  is  death  ;  and  to 

my    eyes,    the    pretty    maid    who    thwarts    her 

mother  with   such   taking  graces  on  a  question 

of  a  ball,  drips  no  less  with  human  gore  than 

such  a  murderer  as  yourself, 

Markheim. 

[6] 


JANUARY    EIGHTEENTH 

Success  wins  glory,  but  it  kills  affection,  which 
misfortune  fosters 

The  Story  of  a  Plantation. 

JANUARY    NINETEENTH 

A  generous  prayer  is  never  presented  in  vain  ; 
the  petition  may  be  refused,  but  the  petitioner 
is  always,  I  believe,  rewarded  by  some  gracious 

visitation. 

The  Merry  Men. 

JANUARY  TWENTIETH 

Of  those  who  fail,  I  do  not  speak  —  despair 
should  be  sacred  ;  but  to  those  who  even  mod- 
estly succeed,  the  changes  of  their  life  bring 
interest :  a  job  found,  a  shilling  saved,  a  dainty 
earned,  all  these  are  wells  of  pleasure  springing 
afresh  for  the  successful  poor ;  and  it  is  not 
from  these  but  from  the  villa  dweller  that  we 
hear  complaints  of  the  unworthincss  of  life. 

The  Day  after  To-morron.v. 

JANUARY  TWENTY-FIRST 

Despise  riches,  avoid  the  debasing  influence  of 
cities.  Hygiene  —  hygiene  and  mediocrity  of 
fortune  —  these  be  your  watchwords  during  life. 

The  Treasure  of  Franchard. 

t  7] 


JANUARY  TWENTY-SECOND 

The  salary  in  any  business  under  heaven  is  not 
the  only,  nor  indeed,  the  first  question.  That 
you  should  continue  to  exist  is  a  matter  for  your 
own  consideration  j  but  that  your  business  should 
be  first  honest,  and  second  useful,  are  points  in 
which  honour  and  morality  are  concerned. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

JANUARY  TWENTY-THIRD 

To  avoid  an  occasion  for  our  virtues  is  a  worse 
degree  of  failure  than  to  push  forward  pluckily 
and  make  a  fall.  It  is  lawful  to  pray  God  that 
we  be  not  led  into  temptation  ;  but  not  lawful 
to  skulk  from  those  that  come  to  us. 

Virginibus  Puer'tsque. 

JANUARY  TWENTY-FOURTH 

Wherever  a  man  is,  he  will  find  something  to 
please  and  pacify  him  :  in  the  town  he  will  meet 
pleasant  faces  of  men  and  women,  and  see  beau- 
tiful flowers  at  a  window,  or  hear  a  cage-bird 
singing  at  the  corner  of  the  gloomiest  street ; 
and  for  the  country,  there  is  no  country  without 
some  amenity  —  let  him  only  look  for  it  in  the 
right  spirit,  and  he  will  surely  find. 

Unpleasant  Places. 

[8  ] 


JANUARY  TWENTY-FIFTH 

We  talk  of  bad  and  good  —  everything,  indeed, 
is  good  which  is  conceived  with  honesty  and 
executed  with  communicative  ardour. 

A  Note  on  Realism. 

JANUARY  TWENTY-SIXTH 

To  be  suddenly  snufFed  out  in  the  middle  of 
ambitious  schemes,  is  tragical  enough  at  best  -, 
but  when  a  man  has  been  grudging  himself  his 
own  life  in  the  meanwhile,  and  saving  up  every- 
thing for  the  festival  that  was  never  to  be,  it 
becomes  that  hysterically  moving  sort  of  tragedy 
which  lies  on  the  confines  of  farce. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

JANUARY  TWENTY-SEVENTH 

The    respectable    are   not  led   so  much  by   any 

desire  of   applause    as   by  a    positive    need    for 

countenance.      The  weaker  and   the  tamer  the 

man,  the  more  will  he  require  this  support  ;   and 

any  positive  quality  relieves  him,  by  just  so  much, 

of  this  dependence. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Samuel  Pepys. 

JANUARY  TWENTY-EK^HTM 

That  is  one  (jf  the  best  features  of  the  heavenly 
bodies,  that  they  belong  to  everybody  in  par- 
ticular. 

Providence  and  the  Guitar. 

[9] 


JANUARY  TWENTY-NINTH 

From  those  who  mark  the  divisions  on  a  scale  to 
those  who  measure  the  boundaries  of  empires  or 
the  distance  of  the  heavenly  stars,  it  is  by  careful 
method  and  minute,  unwearying  attention  that 
men  rise  even  to  material  exactness  or  to  sure 
knowledge  even  of  external  and  constant  things. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

JANUARY  THIRTIETH 

It  is  a  great  thing,  believe  me,  to  present  a  good 
normal  type  of  the  nation  you  belong  to. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

JANUARY  THIRTY-FIRST 

Where  a  man  in  not  the  best  of  circumstances 
preserves  composure  of  mind,  and  relishes  ale 
and  tobacco,  and  his  wife  and  children,  in  the 
intervals  of  dull  and  unremunerative  labour; 
where  a  man  in  this  predicament  can  afford  a 
lesson  by  the  way  to  what  are  called  his  intellec- 
tual superiors,  there  is  plainly  something  to  be 
lost,  as  well  as  something  to  be  gained,  by  teaching 
him  to  think  differently. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Walt  Whitman. 


[    ^o   ] 


FEBRUARY 


FEBRUARY  FIRST 

OF  all  unfortunates  there  is  one  creature  (for 
I  will  not  call  him  man)  conspicuous  in 
misfortune.  This  is  he  who  has  forfeited  his 
birthright  of  expression,  who  has  cultivated  artful 
intonations,  who  has  taught  his  face  tricks,  like 
a  pet  monkey,  and  on  every  side  perverted  or 
cut  off  his   means  of  communication  with   his 

fellow-men. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

FEBRUARY  SECOND 

To  be  deeply  interested  in  the  accidents  of  our 
existence,  to  enjoy  keenly  the  mixed  texture  of 
human  experience,  rather  leads  a  man  to  dis- 
regard precautions,  and  risk  his  neck  against  a 
straw.  For  surely  the  love  of  living  is  stronger 
in  an  Alpine  climber  roping  over  a  peril,  or  a 
hunter  riding  merrily  at  a  stiff  fence,  than  in  a 
creature  who  lives  upon  a  diet  and  walks  a  meas- 
ured distance  in  the  interest  of  his  constitution. 

Acs  Triplex. 

[     -     J 


FEBRUARY  THIRD 

Every  book  is,  in  an  intimate  sense,  a  circular 
letter  to  the  friends  of  him  who  writes  it.  They 
alone  take  his  meaning  ;  they  find  private  mes- 
sages, assurances  of  love,  and  expressions  of 
gratitude  dropped  for  them  in  every  corner.  The 
public  is  but  a  generous  patron  who  defrays 
the  postage.  Yet,  though  the  letter  is  directed 
to  all,  we  have  an  old  and  kindly  custom  of 
addressing  it  on  the  outside  to  one.  Of  what 
shall  a  man  be  proud,  if  he  is  not  proud  of  his 

friends  ? 

Letter  to  Sidney  Col'vin. 

FEBRUARY  FOURTH 

There  are  duties  which  come  before  gratitude, 

and    offences    which   justly    divide    friends,  far 

more  acquaintances. 

Father  Damien. 

FEBRUARY  FIFTH 

We    cannot     trust    ourselves     to    behave    with 

decency;  we  cannot  trust  our  consciences;   and 

the  remedy  proposed  is  to  elect  a  round  number 

of  our  neighbours,  pretty  much  at  random,  and 

say  to  these:    "■Be    ye  our  conscience;    make 

laws  so  wise,  and  continue  from  year  to  year  to 

administer  them  so  wisely,  that  they  shall  save 

us    from   ourselves    and   make  us  righteous  and 

happy,  world  without  end.      Amen." 

The  Day  after  To-morroiu. 


FEBRUARY  SIXTH 

The  longer  we  live,  the  more  we  perceive  the 
sagacity  of  Aristotle  and  the  other  old  philoso- 
phers ;  and  though  I  have  all  my  life  been  eager 
for  legitimate  distinctions,  I  can  lay  my  hand 
upon  my  heart,  at  the  end  of  my  career,  and 
declare  there  is  not  one  —  no,  nor  yet  life  itself 
—  which  is  worth  acquiring  or  preserving  at  the 

slightest  cost  of  dignity. 

The  Master  of  Ballantrae. 

FEBRUARY  SEVENTH 

Solitude  is  the  climax  of  the  negative  virtues. 
When  we  go  to  bed  after  a  solitary  day  we  can 
tell  ourselves  that  we  have  not  been  unkind  nor 
dishonest  nor  untruthful  ;  and  the  negative  vir- 
tues are  agreeable  to  that  dangerous  faculty  we 

call  the  conscience. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

FEBRUARY  EIGHTH 

I  would   put  a  good  name  upon  a  virtue;  you 

will  not  overdo  it ;  they  are  not  so  enchanting 

in  themselves. 

Of  Love  and  Politics. 

FEBRUARY  NINTH 

Money  enters  in  two  different  characters  into 
the  scheme  of  life.  A  certain  amount,  varying 
with  the  number  and  empire  of  our  desires,  is  a 
true  necessary  to  each  one  of  us  in  the  present 

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order  of  society  ;  but  beyond  that  amount,  money 
is  a  commodity  to  be  bought  or  not  to  be  bought, 
a  luxury  in  which  we  may  either  indulge  or  stint 
ourselves,  like  any  other.  And  there  are  many 
luxuries  that  we  may  legitimately  prefer  to  it, 
such  as  a  grateful  conscience,  a  country  life,  or 
the  woman  of  our  inclination. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 

FEBRUARY  TENTH 

It  is  but  a  lying  cant  that  would  represent  the 
merchant  and  the  banker  as  people  disinterestedly 
toiling  for  mankind,  and  then  most  useful  when 
they  are  most  absorbed  in  their  transactions ;  for 
the  man  is  more  important  than  his  services. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

FEBRUARY  ELEVENTH 

It  is  good  to  have  been  young  in  youth  and,  as 
years  go  on,  to  grow  older.  Many  are  already 
old  before  they  are  through  their  teens ;  but  to 
travel  deliberately  through  one's  ages  is  to  get 
the  heart  out  of  a  liberal  education. 

Letter  to  IVilliam  Ernest  Henley. 

FEBRUARY   TWELFTH 

On   my   tomb,  if  ever  I   have  one,  I   mean  to 

get  these   words  inscribed :    "  He   clung   to  his 

paddle." 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

[    U    1 


FEBRUARY   THIRTEENTH 

God  made  them  twain  by  intention,  and  brought 

true  love  into  the  world,  to  be  man's  hope  and 

woman's  comfort. 

T^he  Black  Arroiv. 


FEBRUARY    FOURTEENTH 

Solitude  for  its  own  sake  should  surely  never  be 
preferred.  We  are  bound  by  the  strongest  obli- 
gations to  busy  ourselves  amid  the  world  of  men, 
if  it  be  only  to  crack  jokes.  The  finest  trait  in 
the  character  of  St.  Paul  was  his  readiness  to  be 
damned  for  the  salvation  of  anybody  else.  And 
surely  we  should  all  endure  a  little  weariness  to 
make  one  face  look  brighter  or  one  hour  go 
more  pleasantly   in   this  mixed  world. 

Rejiections  and  Remarks. 

FEBRUARY    FIFTEENTH 

A  man  who  must  separate  himself  from  his 
neighbours'  habits  in  order  to  be  happy,  is  in 
much  the  same  case  with  one  who  requires  to 
take  opium  for  the  same  purpose.  What  we 
want  to  sec  is  one  who  can  breast  into  the 
world,  do  a  man's  work,  and  still  preserve  his 
first  and   pure  enjoyment  of  existence. 

Familiar  HtuJia  —  Thorcau. 


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FEBRUARY  SIXTEENTH 

Things  are  fit   for  art  so   far  only  as  they  are 
both  true  and  apparent. 

IVorks  of  Edgar  Allan  Poe. 

FEBRUARY  SEVENTEENTH 

Faces  have  a  trick  of  growing  more  and  more 

spiritualised    and   abstract   in  the  memory,  until 

nothing  remains  of  them  but  a  look,  a  haunting 

expression  ;  just  that  secret  quality  in  a  face  that 

is  apt  to  slip  out  somehow  under  the  cunningest 

painter's  touch  and  leave  the  portrait  dead  for 

the  lack  of  it. 

An  Autumn  Effect. 

FEBRUARY  EIGHTEENTH 

Late  years  are  still  in  limbo  to  us ;  but  the  more 
distant  past  is  all  that  we  possess  in  life,  the  corn 
already  harvested  and  stored  forever  in  the  grange 
of  memory.  ...  If  I  desire  to  live  long,  it  is 
that  I  may  have  the  more  to  look  back  upon. 

A  Retrospect. 

FEBRUARY  NINETEENTH 

One  of  the  things  that  we  profess  to  teach  our 
young  is  a  respect  for  truth  ;  and  I  cannot  think 
this  piece  of  education  will  be  crowned  with  any 
great  success,  so  long  as  some  of  us  practise  and 
the  rest  openly  approve  of  public  falsehood. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

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FEBRUARY  TWENTIETH 

If  we  are  indeed  here  to  perfect  and  complete 
our  own  natures,  and  grow  larger,  stronger,  and 
more  sympathetic  against  some  nobler  career  in 
the  future,  we  had  all  best  bestir  ourselves  to  the 
utmost  while  we  have  the  time. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-FIRST 

To  marry  is  to  domesticate  the  Recording  Angel. 
Once  you  are  married,  there  is  nothing  left  for 
you,  not  even  suicide,  but  to  be  good. 

Virginibus  Puer'tsque. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-SECOND 

In  a  man  who  finds  all  things  good,  you  will 
scarce  expect  much  zeal  for  negative  virtues  : 
the  active  alone  will  have  a  charm  for  him ; 
abstinence,  however  wise,  however  kind,  will 
always  seem  to  such  a  judge  entirely  mean  and 

partly  impious. 

Memories  and  Portraits. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-THIRD 

Forth  from  the  casemate,  on  the  plain 
Where  honour  has  the  world  to  gain, 
Pour  forth  and  bravely  do  your  part, 
O  knights  of  the  unshielded  heart  ! 
Forth  and  for  ever  forward  !  —  out 
From  prudent  turret  and  redoubt, 

L   '7  J 


And  in  the  mellay  charge  amain, 
To  fall,  but  yet  to  rise  again  ! 

Our  Lady  of  the  Snoivs, 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-FOURTH 

The  faults  of  married   people  continually   spur 

up  each  of  them,  hour  by  hour,  to  do  better  and 

to  meet  and  love  upon  a  higher  ground.     And 

ever,    between     the     failures,  there    will    come 

glimpses    of    kind    virtues     to    encourage     and 

console. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-FIFTH 

Blessed  nature,  healthy,  temperate  nature,  abhors 
and  exterminates  excess.  Human  law,  in  this 
matter,  imitates  at  a  great  distance  her  pro- 
visions;  and  we  must  strive  to  supplement  the 

efl'orts  of  the  law. 

The  Treasure  of  Franchard. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-SIXTH 

It  is  the  business  of  this  life  to  make  excuses 

for  others,  but  none  for  ourselves.     We  should 

be  clearly  persuaded  of  our  own  misconduct,  for 

that  is  the  part  of  knowledge  in  which  wc  are 

most  apt  to  be  defective. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-SEVENTH 

All  our  arts  and  occupations  lie  wholly  on  the 
surface ;   it   is  on  the  surface  that  we   perceive 

[   '8  ] 


their  beauty,  fitness,  and  significance;  and  to 
prv  below  is  to  be  appalled  by  their  emptiness 
and    shocked    by  th«  coarseness  of   the  strings 

and   pulleys. 

On  Style  in  Literature. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-EIGHTH 

In  unbeloved  toils,  even  under  the  prick  of 
necessity,  no  man  is  continually  sedulous.  Once 
eliminate  the  fear  of  starvation,  once  eliminate 
or  bound  the  hope  of  riches,  and  we  shall  see 
plenty  of  skulking  and  malingering. 

The  Day  after  To-morro'w. 

FEBRUARY  TWENTY-NINTH 

There  is  something  in  marriage  so  natural  and 
inviting,  that  the  step  has  an  air  of  great  sim- 
plicity and  ease;  it  offers  to  bury  for  ever  many 
aching  preoccupations  ;  it  is  to  afford  us  unfailing 
and  familiar  company  through  life;  it  opens  up 
a  smiling  prospect  of  the  blest  and  passive  kind 
of  love,  rather  than  the  blessing  and  active ;  it 
is  approached  not  only  through  the  delights  of 
courtship,  but  by  a  public  performance  and 
repeated  legal  signatures.  A  rnan  naturally  thinks 
it  will  go  hard  with  him  if  he  cannot  be  good 
and    fortunate    and    happy   within    such   august 

circumvallalions. 

Virginibus  Piteris'/ue. 


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^^^^^■^^^^B^^^^^^^^^^^"^*^ 


MARCH 


MARCH  FIRST 

TF  I  have  faltered  more  or  less 

In  my  great  task  of  happiness  ; 
If  I  have  moved  among  my  race 
And  shown  no  glorious  morning  face; 
If  beams  from  happy  human  eyes 
Have  moved  me  not ;   if  morning  skies, 
Books,  and  my  food,  and  summer  rain 
Knocked  on  my  sullen  heart  in  vain  :  — 
Lord,  thy  most  pointed  pleasure  take 
And  stab  my  spirit  broad  awake ; 
Or,  Lord,  if  too  obdurate  I, 
Choose  thou,  before  that  spirit  die, 
A  piercing  pain,  a  killing  sin. 
And  to  my  dead  heart  run  them  in  ! 

The  Celestial  Surgeon. 

MARCH  SECOND 

Life  is  so  short   and   insecure  that   I  would   not 

hurry   away   from  any   pleasure. 

Markheim. 


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MARCH  THIRD 

A  happy  man  or  woman  is  a  better  thing  to  find 
than  a  five-pound  note.  He  or  she  is  a  radiating 
focus  of  goodwill;  and  their  entrance  into  a  room 
is  as  though  another  candle  had  been  lighted. 

An  Apology  for  Idlers. 

MARCH  FOURTH 

It  is  the  property  of  things  seen  for  the  first  time, 

or  for  the  first  time  after  long,  like  the  flowers 

in  spring,  to  reawaken  in  us  the  sharp  edge  of 

sense  and  that  impression  of  mystic  strangeness 

which    otherwise    passes    out   of   life  with    the 

coming  of  years;  but  the  sight  of  a  loved  face 

is    what    renews    a    man's  character    from    the 

fountain  upwards. 

Will  0-  the  Mill. 

MARCH  FIFTH 

Many  a  man's  destiny  has  been  settled  by  nothing 
apparently  more  grave  than  a  pretty  face  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  street  and  a  couple  of  bad 
companions  round  the  corner. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Franfois  Villon. 

MARCH  SIXTH 

Talk  should  proceed  by  instances ;  by  the  appo- 
site, not  the  expository.  It  should  keep  close 
along  the  lines   of   humanity,  near  the  bosoms 

[    22   ] 


and  businesses  of  men,  at  the  level  where  h'ls- 
tory,  fiction,  and  experience  intersect  and  illumi- 
nate each  other. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 

MARCH  SEVENTH 

The    Lion    is    the    King  of   Beasts,  but   he   is 

scarcely    suitable    for    a   domestic    pet.     In   the 

same  way,  I  suspect  love  is  rather  too  violent  a 

passion  to  make,  in  all  cases,  a  good   domestic 

sentiment. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

MARCH  EIGHTH 

A  thousand  interests  spring  up  in  the  process  of 
the  ages  and  a  thousand  perish  ;  that  is  now  an 
eccentricity  or  a  lost  art  which  was  once  the 
fashion  of  an  empire  -,  and  those  only  are  peren- 
nial matters  that  rouse  us  to-day,  and  that  roused 
men  in  all  epochs  of  the  past. 

Memories  and  Portraits. 

MARCH  NINTH 

Our  faith  is  not  the  highest  truth  that  we  per- 
ceive, but  the  highest  that  wc  have  been  able  to 
assimilate   into  the  very  texture  and  method  of 

our  thinking. 

Familiar  Studies —  H'ult  Whitman. 

[23    ] 


MARCH  TENTH 

It  is  as  natural  and  as  right  for  a  young  man  to 
be  imprudent  and  exaggerated,  to  live  in  swoops 
and  circles,  and  beat  about  his  cage  like  any 
other  wild  thing  newly  captured,  as  it  is  for  old 
men  to  turn  gray,  or  mothers  to  love  their  off- 
spring, or  heroes  to  die  for  something  worthier 

than  their  lives. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

MARCH  ELEVENTH 

Love    is    not    love   that  cannot   build    a   home. 

And  you  call  it  love  to  grudge  and  quarrel  and 

pick  faults  ? 

Of  Lo<ve  and  Politics. 

MARCH  TWELFTH 

The  race  of  man,  like  that  indomitable  nature 
whence  it  sprang,  has  medicating  virtues  of  its 
own  ;  the  years  and  seasons  bring  various  har- 
vests;  the  sun  returns  after  the  rain;  and  man- 
kind outlives  secular  animosities,  as  a  single  man 
awakens  from  the  passions  of  a  day. 

The  Country  of  the  Camisards. 

MARCH  THIRTEENTH 

When  people  serve  the  kingdom  of  heaven  with 
a  pass-book  in  their  hands,  I  should  always  be 
afraid  lest  they  should  carry  the  same  commercial 

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spirit  into  their  dealings  with  their  fellow-men, 

which  would  make  a  sad  and  sordid  business  of 

this  life. 

Doivn  the  Oise. 

MARCH  FOURTEENTH 

It  is  easy  to  be  a  conservator  of  the  discomforts 

of  others ;   indeed,  it  is  only  our  good  qualities 

we  find  it  irksome  to  conserve. 

Old  To-wn. 

MARCH  FIFTEENTH 

It  is  true  that  we  might  do  a  vast  amount  of 
good  if  we  were  wealthy,  but  it  is  also  highly 
improbable;  not  many  do;  and  the  art  of  growing 
rich  is  not  only  quite  distinct  from  that  of  doing 
good,  but  the  practice  of  the  one  does  not  at  all 
train  a  man  for  practising  the  other. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 

MARCH   SIXTEENTH 

We  reckon  our  lives,  I  hardly  know  why,  from 
the  date  of  our  first  sorry  appearance  in  society, 
as  if  from  a  first  humiliation  ;  for  no  actor  can 
come  upon  the  stage  with  a  worse  grace. 

The  Treasure  qf  Franchard. 

MARCH    SEVENTEENTH 

I  am  sorry  indeed  that  I  have  no  Greek,  but  I 
should  be  sorrier  si  ill  if    I  were  dc;ui  ;   nor  do  I 

[    25    ] 


know  the  name  of  that    branch   of  knowledtre 

which  is  worth  acquiring  at  the  price  of  a   brain 

fever. 

Some  College  Memories. 

MARCH    EIGHTEENTH 

O    toiling    hands    of   mortals !       O    unwearied 

feet,  travelling   ye    know    not  whither !     Soon, 

soon,  it  seems  to  you,  you  must  come  forth  on 

some  conspicuous  hilltop,  and  but  a  little  way 

further,  against  the  setting  sun,  descry  the  spires 

of   El   Dorado.      Little  do  ye  know  your  own 

blessedness ;    for  to  travel  hopefully  is  a  better 

thing  than  to  arrive,  and  the  true  success  is  to 

labour. 

El  Dorado. 

MARCH    NINETEENTH 

It  is  only  by  trying  to  understand  others  that 
we  can  get  our  own  hearts  understood  ;  and  in 
matters  of  human  feeling  the  clement  judge  is 
the  most  successful  pleader. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

MARCH    TWENTIETH 

The  truth  that  is  suppressed  by  friends  is  the 
readiest  weapon  of  the  enemy. 


Father  Damien. 


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MARCH    TWENTY-FIRST 

Wherever  we  are,  it  is  but  a  stage  on  the  way 
to  somcvvhere  else,  and  whatever  we  do,  however 
well  we  do  it,  it  is  only  a  preparation  to  do 
something  else  that  shall  be  different. 

Letters  from  Samoa  to  Young  People. 

MARCH    TWENTY-SECOND 

It  is  perhaps  one  of  the  most  touching  things 
in  human  nature,  as  it  is  a  commonplace  of 
psychology,  that  when  a  man  has  just  lost  hope 
or  confidence  in  one  love,  he  is  then  most  eager 
to  find  and  lean  upon  another. 

Some  Aspects  of  Robert  Burns. 

MARCH    TWENTY-THIRD 

No  considerate  man  can  approach  marriage 
without  deep  concern.  I,  he  will  think,  who 
have  made  hitherto  so  poor  a  business  of  my 
own  life,  am  now  about  to  embrace  the  responsi- 
bility of  another's.  Henceforth,  there  shall  be 
two  to  suffer  from  my  faults ;  and  that  other 
is  the  one  whom  I  most  desire  to  shield  from 
suffering.  In  view  of  our  impotence  and  folly,  it 
seems  an  act  of  presumption  to  involve  another's 

destiny  with  ours. 

Refections  and  Remarks. 

\    -•    ] 


MARCH    TWENTY-FOURTH 

Wc  speak  of  hardships,  but  the  true  hardship  is 
to  be  a  dull  fool,  and  permitted  to  mismanage 
life  in  our  own  dull  and  foolish  manner. 

Our  Lady  of  the  Snoivs. 

MARCH    TWENTY-FIFTH 

Alas,  as  we  get  up  in  life,  and  are  more  pre- 
occupied with  our  affairs,  even  a  holiday  is  a 
thing  that   must  be  worked   for. 

Trwvels  nxiith  a  Donkey. 

MARCH    TWENTY-SIXTH 

We  are  apt  to  make  so  much  of  the  tragedy  of 
death,  and  think  so  little  of  the  enduring  tragedy 
of  some  men's  lives,  that  we  see  more  to  lament 
for  in  a  life  cut  off  in  the  midst  of  usefulness 
and  love,  than  in  one  that  miserably  survives  all 
love  and  usefulness,  and  goes  about  the  world 
the  phantom  of  itself,  without  hope,  or  joy,  or 

any  consolation. 

An  Autumn  Effect. 

MARCH    TWENTY-SEVENTH 

While  we  have  little  to  try  us,  we  are  angry 
with  little;  small  annoyances  do  not  bear  their 
justification  on  their  faces ;  but  when  we  are 
overtaken  by  a  great   sorrow  or  perplexity,  the 

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greatness  of  our  concern  sobers  us  so  that  we  see 
more  clearly  and  think  with  more  consideration. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

MARCH    TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Pinches,  buffets,  the  glow  of  hope,  the  shock 

of  disappointment,  furious   contention   with 

obstacles:  these  are  the  true  elixir  for  all  vital 

spirits,  these  are  what  they   seek  alike  in  their 

romantic   enterprises   and    their    unromantic 

dissipations. 

The  Day  after  To-morroiu. 

MARCH    TWENY-NINTH 

Without  fresh  air,  you  only  require  a  bad  heart, 
and  a  remarkable  command  of  the  Queen's 
English,  to  become  such  another  as  Dean  Swift. 

Across  the  Plains. 

MARCH    THIRTIETH 

On  the  whole,  the  most  religious  exercise  for 
the  aged  is  probably  to  recall  their  own  experi- 
ence ;  so  many  fricntis  dead,  so  many  hopes 
disappointed,  so  many  slips  and  stumbles,  and 
withal  so  many  bright  days  and  smiling  provi- 
dences*,   there    is   surely    the    matter  of   a   very 

c]o(juent   sermon   in   this. 

An  Inland  Voyav^e. 

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MARCH    THIRTY-FIRST 

By  the  report  of  our  elders,  this  nervous  prepara- 
tion for  old  age  is  only  trouble  thrown  away. 
We  fall  on  guard,  and  after  all  it  is  a  friend  who 
comes  to  meet  us.  After  the  sun  is  down  and 
the  west  faded,  the  heavens  begin  to  fill  with 
shining  stars.  So,  as  we  grow  old,  a  sort  of 
equable  jog-trot  of  feeling  is  substituted  for  the 
violent  ups  and  downs  of  passion  and  disgust; 
the  same  influence  that  restrains  our  hopes, 
quiets  our  apprehensions;  if  the  pleasures  are 
less  intense,  the  troubles  are  milder  and  more 
tolerable;  and  in  a  word,  this  period  for  which 
we  are  asked  to  hoard  up  everything  as  for  a 
time  of  famine,  is,  in  its  own   right,  the  richest, 

easiest,  and  happiest  of  life. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 


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^^^^g^ 


APRIL 


APRIL    FIRST 

SUCH  things  as  honour  and  love  and  faith  are 
not  only  nobler  than  food  and  drink,  but 
indeed  I  think  we  desire  them  more  and  sufter 
more  sharply  for  their  absence. 

A  Lodging  for  the  Night. 

APRIL    SECOND 

An   oath,  so   light  a  thing  to  swear,  so  grave  a 

thing  to  break  :   an   oath,  taken   in   the  heat  of 

youth,  repented  with  what  sobbings  of  the  heart, 

but  yet  in  vain   repented,  as  the  years  go  on  : 

an  oath,  that  was  once  the  very  utterance  of  the 

truth  of  God,  but  that  falls  to  be  the  symbol  of 

a  meaningless  and   empty   slavery  ;  such  is  the 

yoke    that    many   young    men  joyfully  assume, 

and  under  whose  dead  weight  they  live  to  suftcr 

worse  than  death. 

The  Spirited  Old  Lady. 

APRIL    THIRD 

It    seems   as    if    marriage   were    the    royal    road 
through  life,  and  realised,  on  llic  iiisiant,  what  wc 

[  3'   J 


have  all  dreamed  on  summer  Sundays  when  the 

bells   ring,  or  at   night  when  we    cannot  sleep 

for  the  desire  of  living. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

APRIL    FOURTH 

Most    men,  finding    themselves   the   authors   of 

their  own  disgrace,  rail  the  louder  against  God 

or    destiny.       Most    men,    when    they    repent, 

oblige   their   friends   to   share   the  bitterness  of 

that   repentance. 

Memories  and  Portraits. 

APRIL    FIFTH 

It  is  a  sore  thing  to  have  laboured  long  and 
scaled  the  arduous  hilltops,  and  when  all  is  done, 
find  humanity  indifi^erent  to  your  achievement. 

An  Apology  for  Idlers. 

APRIL    SIXTH 

The  first  duty  of  man  is  to  speak  ;  that  is  his 

chief  business  in  this  world  ;  and  talk,  which  is 

the  harmonious  speech   of  two  or  more,  is   by 

far  the  most  accessible  of  pleasures.      It  costs 

nothing  in  money;   it  is  all  profit;   it  completes 

our  education,  founds  and  fosters  our  friendships, 

and  can  be  enjoyed  at  any  age  and  in  almost  any 

state  of  health. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 

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APRIL   SEVENTH 

Day  by  day  we  perfect  ourselves   in  the  art  of 

seeing  nature  more  favourably.    We  learn  to  live 

with  her,  as  people  learn  to  live  with  fretful  or 

violent  spouses :    to  dwell   lovingly   on  what  is 

good,  and  shut  our  eyes  against  all  that  is  bleak 

or  inharmonious. 

Unpleasant  Places. 


APRIL   EIGHTH 

It  is  the  mark  of  a  modest  man  to  accept  his 

friendly   circle   ready-made    from    the   hands  of 

opportunity. 

Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde. 


APRIL    NINTH 

People  who  share  a  cell  in  the  Bastille,  or  are 
thrown  together  on  an  uninhabited  isle,  if  they 
do  not  immediately  fall  to  fisticuffs,  will  find 
some  possible  ground  of  compromise.  They 
will  learn  each  other's  ways  and  humours,  so  as 
to  know  where  they  must  go  warily,  and  where 
they  may  lean  their  whole  weight.  The  discre- 
tion of  the  first  years  becomes  the  settled  habit 
of  the  last-,  and  so,  with  wisdom  and  patience, 
two  lives  may  grow  indissolubly  into  one. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 


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APRIL   TENTH 

We  do  not  go  to  cowards  for  tender  dealing; 

there  is  nothing  so  cruel  as  panic  •■,  the  man  who 

has  least  fear  for  his  own  carcase,  has  most  time 

to  consider  others. 

Aes  Triplex. 

APRIL    ELEVENTH 

I  am  not  afraid  of  the  truth,  if  any  one  could 
tell  it  me,  but  I  am  afraid  of  parts  of  it  imperti- 
nently uttered. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

APRIL    TWELFTH 

Age  asks  with  timidity  to  be  spared  intolerable 
pain  ;  youth,  taking  fortune  by  the  beard,  de- 
mands joy   like  a  right. 

The  Dynamiter. 

APRIL   THIRTEENTH 

The  devil  is  only  a  very  weak  spirit  before  God's 
truth,  and  all  his  subtleties  vanish  at  a  word  of 
true  honour,  like  darkness  at  morning. 

Neiv  Arabian  Nights. 

APRIL    FOURTEENTH 

To  love  a  character  is  only  the  heroic  way  of 
understanding  it.  When  we  love,  by  some 
noble  method  of  our  own  or  some  nobility  of 
mien  or  nature  in  the  other,  we  apprehend  the 
loved  one  by  what  is  noblest  in  ourselves. 
When  we  are  merely  studying  an  eccentricity, 

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the  method  of  our  study  is  but  a  series  of  allow- 
ances. To  begin  to  understand  is  to  begin  to 
sympathise;  for  comprehension  comes  only  when 
we    have  stated  another's  faults  and   virtues  in 

terms  of  our  own. 

The  Story  of  a  Lie. 

APRIL    FIFTEENTH 

There  is  an  obligation  in  happiness. 

The  Master  of  Eallantrae. 

APRIL    SIXTEENTH 

Deeds  are  what  I  ask;  kind  deeds  and  words  — 
that 's  the  true-blue  piety  :  to  hope  the  best  and 
do  the  best,  and  speak  the  kindest. 

Admiral  Guinea. 

APRIL    SEVENTEENTH 
O,  to  be  up  and  doing,  O 
Unfearing  and  unashamed  to  go 
In  all  the  uproar  and  the  press 
About  my  human  business  ! 

Our  l.aJy  of  the  Snoivs. 

APRIL    EIGHTEENTH 

'I'o  do  anything  because  others  do  it,  and  not 
because  the  thing  is  good,  or  kind,  or  honest  in 
its  own  right,  is  to  resign  all  moral  control  ami 
captaincy  upon  yourself,  and  go  post-haste  to 
the   devil   with   the   greater   niiinbcr. 

Familinr  StuJiis  —  Samuel  Pefiys. 

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APRIL    NINETEENTH 

When  things  fall  out  opportunely  for  the  person 
concerned,  he  is  not  apt  to  be  critical  about  the 
how  or  why,  his  own  immediate  personal  con- 
venience seeming  a  sufficient  reason  for  the 
strangest  oddities  and  revolutions  in  our  sub- 
lunary things. 

The  Sire  de  MaLtroit"  s  Door. 

APRIL  TWENTIETH 

We  must  not,  in  things  temporal,  take  from 
those  who  have  little,  the  little  that  they  have. 

On  Style  in  Literature. 

APRIL  TWENTY-FIRST 

All  the  puling  sorrows,  all  the  carking  repent- 
ance, all  this  talk  of  duty  that  is  no  duty,  in  the 
great  peace,  in  the  pure  daylight  of  these  woods, 

fall  away  from  you  like  a  garment. 

Forest  Notes. 


APRIL  TWENTY-SECOND 

Our  right  to  live,  to  eat,  to  share  in  mankind's 
pleasures,  lies  precisely  in  this  :  that  we  must  be 
persuaded  we  can  on  the  whole  live  rather  bene- 
ficially than  hurtfully  to  others.  Remove  this 
persuasion,  and  the  man  has  lost  his  right. 
That  persuasion  is  our  dearest  jewel,  to  which 

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we  must  sacrifice  the  life  itself  to  which  it  en- 
titles   us.     P'or    it    is    better    to    be    dead    than 

degraded. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

APRIL  TWENTY-THIRD 

A  new  creed,  like  a  new  country,  is  an  unhomely 
place  of  sojourn  ;  but  it  makes  men  lean  on  one 
another  and  join  hands. 

Familiar  Studies  —  John  Knox. 

APRIL  TWENTY-FOURTH 

I   have  always  thought  drunkenness  a  wild  and 

almost  fearful   pleasure,  rather  demoniacal  than 

human. 

The  Merry  Men. 

APRIL  TWENTY-FIFTH 

All  the  world  imagine  they  will  be  exceptional 
when  they  grow  wealthy ;  but  possession  is 
debasing,  new  desires  spring  up ;  and  the  silly 
taste  for  ostentation  eats  out  the  heart  of  pleasure. 

The  Treasure  of  Franchard. 

APRIL  TWENTY-SIXTH 

The  virtues  we  admire  in  the  saint  and  the  hero 
are  the  fruits  of  a  happy  constitution.  You,  for 
your  part,  must  not  think  you  will  ever  be  a 
good  man,  for  these  are  born  and  ni)t  made. 
You  will  have  your  own   reward,  if  you   kic[) 

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on  growing  better  than  you  were  —  how  do  I 
say?  —  if  you  do  not  keep  on  growing  worse. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

APRIL  TWENTY-SEVENTH 

The  habitual  liar  may  be  a  very  honest  fellow^ 

and  live  truly  with  his  wife  and  friends ;   while 

another  man  who  never  told  a  formal  falsehood 

in   his  life  may  yet  be  himself  one  lie  —  heart 

and   face,  from  top  to  bottom. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

APRIL  TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Man  is  an  idle  animal.  He  is  at  least  as  intel- 
ligent as  the  ant ;  but  generations  of  advisers 
have     in    vain     recommended     him     the     ant's 

example. 

The  Day  after  To-morronu. 

APRIL  TWENTY-NINTH 

Some  thoughts,  which   sure  would  be  the  most 

beautiful,  vanish  before  we  can  rightly  scan  their 

features ;    as    though    a   god,  travelling    by  our 

green   highways,  should  but  ope  the  door,  give 

one  smiling  look  into  the  house,  and  go  again 

for  ever. 

The  Country  of  the  Camuards. 

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APRIL  THIRTIETH 

Nothing  is  given  for  nothing  in  this  world ; 
there  can  be  no  true  love,  even  on  your  own 
side,  without  devotion  ;  devotion  is  the  exercise 
of  love,  by  which  it  grows;  but  if  you  will  give 
enough  of  that,  if  you  will  pay  the  price  in  a 
sufficient  "  amount  of  what  you  call  life,"  why 
then,  indeed,  whether  with  wife  or  comrade,  you 
may  have  months  and  even  years  of  such  easy, 
natural,  pleasurable,  and  yet  improving  inter- 
course as  shall  make  time  a  moment  and  kind- 
ness a  delight. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 


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.(^HP^. 


MAY 


MAY   FIRST 

IT  is  really  very  disheartening  how  we  depend 
on  other  people  in  this  life. 

the  Silnjerado  Squatters. 

MAY   SECOND 

It  is  not  well  to  think  of  death,  unless  we  temper 

the  thought  with  that  of  heroes  who  despised  it. 

Upon  what  ground,   is   of  small   account;   it    it 

be  only  the  bishop  who  was  burned  for  his  faith 

in  the  antipodes,  his  memory  lightens  the  heart 

and  makes  us  walk  undisturbed  among  graves. 

And  so  the  martyrs'  monument  is  a  wholcsonu-, 

heartsome  spot  in  the  field  of  the  dead  ;  and  as 

we  look  upon  it,  a  brave  influence  comes  to  us 

from   the    land   of    those  who  have  won    their 

discharge    and,   in    another    phrase    of     Patrick 

Walker's,  got  "cleanly  oft"  the  stage." 

Grcjjriars. 

MAY    THIRD 

Those  wlio  can   avoid   toil   altogether  am!  (Kvrll 
in  the  Arcadia  of  private  means,  and  even  those 

L   4'     I 


who  can,  by  abstinence,   reduce    the   necessary 

amount  of  it  to  some  six  weeks  a  year,  having 

the   more    hberty,  have  only   the  higher    moral 

obligation   to   be  up   and  doing   in   the   interest 

of  man. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 


MAY    FOURTH 

Sin,  my  dear  young  friend,  sin  is  the  sole  calam- 
ity that  a  wise  man  should  apprehend. 

Fable  of  the  Yello^w  Paint. 

MAY    FIFTH 

We  all  have  by  our  bedsides  the  box  of  the 
Merchant  Abudah,  thank  God,  securely  enough 
shut ;  but  when  a  young  man  sacrifices  sleep  to 
labour,  let  him  have  a  care,  for  he  is  playing  with 

the  lock. 

Some  College  Memories. 

MAY    SIXTH 

The  purely  wise  are  silenced  by  facts  ;  they  talk 
in  a  clear  atmosphere,  problems  lying  around 
them  like  a  view  in  nature;  if  thev  can  be 
shown  to  be  somewhat  in  the  wrong,  they  digest 
the   reproof  like  a  thrashing,  and   make   better 

intellectual  blood. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 


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MAY   SEVENTH 

A  certain  sort  of  talent  is  almost  indispensable 
for  people  who  would  spend  years  together  and 
not  bore  themselves  to  death.  But  the  talent, 
like  the  agreement,  must  be  for  and  about  life. 
To  dwell  happily  together,  they  should  be  versed 
in  the  niceties  of  the  heart,  and  born  with  a 
faculty   for  willing  compromise. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

MAY    EIGHTH 

In  every  part  and  corner  of  our  life,  to  lose 
oneself  is  to  be  gainer ;  to  forget  oneself  is  to 
be  happy. 

Old  Mortality. 

MAY   NINTH 

Life  is  only  a  very  dull  and  ill-directed  theatre 
unless  we  have  some  interests  in  the  piece;  and 
to  those  who  have  neither  art  nor  science,  the 
world  is  a  mere  arrangement  of  colours,  or  a 
rough  footway  where  they  may  very  well  break 
their  shins. 

El  Dorado. 

MAY   TENTH 

The  ignorance  of  your  middle  class  surprises 
mc.  Outside  itself,  it  thinks  the  world  Ui  lie 
«|uitc  ignorant  and  c(]ual,  sunk  in  a  common 
degradation;    hut    to    the   eye    of   the    (jbbcivcr, 

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all  ranks  are  seen  to  stand  in  ordered  hierarchies, 

and  each  adorned  with  its  particular  aptitudes  and 

knowledge. 

Iht  Dynamiter. 

MAY    ELEVENTH 

When   it  comes  to  be  a  question  of  each  man 

doing    his   own    share  or  the    rest  doing   more, 

prettiness  of  sentiment  will  be  forgotten.     To 

dock  the  skulker's   food   is   not   enough ;    many 

will  rather  eat  haws  and  starve  on  petty  pilfer- 

ings  than   put    their  shoulder   to  the  wheel   for 

one  hour  daily. 

the  Day  after  To-morroiv. 

MAY  TWELFTH 

There  is  not  a  juncture  in  to-day's  affairs  but 
some  useful  word  may  yet  be  said  of  it. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

MAY  THIRTEENTH 

In  this  mixed  world,  if  you  can  find  one  or  two 

sensible  places  in  a  man  ;  above  all,  if  you  should 

find    a    whole    family   living    together  on    such 

pleasant  terms,  you  may  surely  be  satisfied,  and 

take  the  rest   for  granted  ;    or,  what  is  a  great 

deal  better,  boldly  make  up  your  mind  that  you 

can  do  perfectly  well  without  the  rest,  and  that 

ten    thousand    bad    traits  cannot   make  a  single 

good  one   any   the  less  good. 

Font-sur-Sambre. 

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MAY  FOURTEENTH 

Whether  people's  gratitude  for  the  good  gifts 
that  come  to  them  be  wisely  conceived  or  duti- 
fully expressed  is  a  secondary  matter,  after  all, 
so  long  as  they   feel  gratitude. 

DoTvn  the  Oise. 

MAY  FIFTEENTH 

Night  is  a  dead  monotonous  period  under  a  roof; 
but  in  the  open  world  it  passes  lightly,  with  its 
stars  and  dews  and  perfumes,  and  the  hours  are 
marked  by  changes  in  the  face  of  nature. 

Tra'vels  ivitA  a  Donkey. 

MAY  SIXTEENTH 

I  have  never  thought  it  easy  to  be  just,  and  find 
it  daily  even  harder  than  I  thought. 

The  Country  of  the  Camisards. 

MAY  SEVENTEENTH 

We  all  suffer  ourselves  to  he  too  much  con- 
cerned about  a  little  poverty  j  but  such  considera- 
tions should  not  move  us  In  the  choice  of  that 
which  is  to  be  the  business  and  justification  of 
so  great  a  portion  of  our  lives;  and  like  the 
missionary,  the  patriot,  or  the  philosopher,  we 
should  all  choose  that  poor  and  brave  career  in 
which  we  can  Ao  the  most  and  best  for  niankind. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

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MAY  EIGHTEENTH 

The  seductions  of  life  are  strong  in  every  age 
and  station  ;  we  make  idols  of  our  afl-ections, 
idols  of  our  customary  virtues;  we  are  content 
to  avoid  the  inconvenient  wrong  and  to  forego 
the  inconvenient  right  with  almost  equal  self- 
approval,  until  at  last  we  make  a  home  for  our 
conscience  among  the  negative  virtues  and  the 

cowardly  vices. 

By-ways  of  Book  Illustration. 

MAY  NINETEENTH 

This  is  one  of  the  lessons  of  travel  —  that  some 

of  the  strangest  races  dwell  next  door  to  you  at 

home. 

Across  the  Plains. 

MAY  TWENTIETH 

It    is  salutary  to  get  out  of  ourselves  and   see 

people  living  together  in  perfect  unconsciousness 

of  our  existence,  as  they  will  live  when  we  arc 

gone. 

An  Autumn  Effect. 

MAY  TWENTY-FIRST 

The  ways  of  men  seem  always  very  trivial  to  us 
when  wc  find  ourselves  alone  on  a  church  top, 
with  the  blue  sky  and  a  icw  tall  pinnacles,  and 
see  far  below  us  the  steep  roofs  and  foreshort- 
ened   buttresses,  and    the  silent  activity   of  the 

city  streets. 

Unpleasmit  Places. 

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MAY  TWENTY-SECOND 

It  is  easy  to  be  virtuous  when  one's  own  con- 
venience is  not  affected  ;  and  it  is  no  shame  to 
any  man  to  follow  the  advice  of  an  outsider  who 
owns  that,  while  he  sees  which  is  the  better  part, 
he  might  not  have  the  courage  to  profit  himself 

by  this  opinion. 

To  the  Clergy. 

MAY  TWENTY-THIRD 

Here  we   have   no  continuing  city  ;   and  as  for 

the  eternal,  it  's  a  comfortable  thought  that  we 

have  other  merits  than  our  own. 

Prince  Errant. 

MAY    TWENTY-FOURTH 

When  we  discover  that  we  can  be  no  lonsrer 
true,  the  next   best   is  to  be   kind. 

Some  Aspects  of  Robert  Burns. 

MAY    TWENTY-FIFTH 

The  Lord  is  Lord  of  misiht  : 
In  deeds,  in  deeds,  he  takes  delight ; 
The  plough,  the  spear,  the  laden  barks 
The  field,  the  founded  city,  marks; 
He  marks  the  smiler  of  the  streets, 
The  singer  upon  garden  scats; 
He  sees  the  climber  in  the  rocks: 
I'o  him  the  shepherd  folds  iiis  flocks. 

Our  Lady  of  the  SnoiMs. 

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MAY    TWENTY-SIXTH 

Love,  like  the  shadow  of  a  great  rock,  should 
lend  shelter  and  refreshment,  not  to  the  lover 
only,  but  to  his  mistress  and  to  the  children  that 
reward  them  ;  and  their  very  friends  should  seek 
repose  in  the  fringes  of  that  peace. 

Of  Lo've  and  Politics. 

MAY    TWENTY-SEVENTH 

All  have  some  fault.      The  fault  of  each  grinds 

down  the  hearts  of  those  about  him,  and  —  let 

us  not  blink  the  truth  —  hurries  both  him  and 

them   into  the  grave. 

Preface  to  Familiar  Studies. 

MAY   TWENTY-EIGHTH 

We  sin,  I  dare  not  say  by  His  temptation,  but 
I  must  say  with  His  consent ;  and  to  any  but 
the   brutish   man   his   sins   are  the  beginning  of 

wisdom. 

The  Merry  Men. 

MAY   TWENTY-NINTH 

We  are  told  by  men  of  science  that  all  the 
ventures  of  mariners  on  the  sea,  all  that  counter- 
marching of  tribes  and  races  that  confounds  old 
history  with  its  dust  and  rumour,  sprang  from 
nothing  more  abstruse  than  the  laws  of  supply 
and  demand,  and   a  certain   natural   instinct   for 

cheap  rations. 

Will  o'  the  Mill. 

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MAY    THIRTIETH 

Justice  is  but  an  earthly  currency,  paid  to 
appearances  ;  you  may  see  another  superticially 
righted  ;  but  be  sure  he  has  got  too  little  or  too 
much;  and  in  your  own  case  rest  content  with 
what  is  paid  you.  It  is  more  just  than  you  sup- 
pose;  that  your  \irtues  are  misunderstood  is  a 
price  you  pay  to  keep  your  meannesses  concealed. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

MAY   THIRTY-FIRST 

The  unattainable  is  not  truly  unattainable  when 
we  can  make  the  beauty  of  it  our  own. 

Lord  Ljtton  s  Fables. 


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JUNE 


JUNE    FIRST 

''  I  ""O  the  gratitude  that  becomes  us  in  this  life, 
-^  I  can  set  no  limit.  Though  we  steer  after 
a  fashion,  yet  we  must  sail  according  to  the  winds 
and  currents.  After  what  I  have  done,  what 
might  1  not  have  done  ?  That  I  have  still  the 
courage  to  attempt  my  life,  that  I  am  not  now 
overladen  with  dishonours,  to  whom  do  I  owe 
it  but  to  the  gentle  ordering  of  circumstances  in 
the  great  design  ?  More  has  not  been  done  to 
me  than  I  can  bear  ;  I  have  been  marvellously 
restrained  and  helped  :    not  unto  us,  O  Lord  ! 

Gratitude  to  God. 

JUNE    SECOND 

A  man  must  not  deny  his  manifest  abilities,  for 
that  is  to  evade  his  obligations. 

The  Treasure  of  Franchard. 

JUNE   THIRD 

The  man  of  very  regular  conduct  is  too  often  a 
prig,  if  he  he  not  worse  —  a  rabbi.  I,  for  my 
part,  want   to  be  startled  out  of  my  conceits  j   I 

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want  to  be  put  to  shame  in  my  own  eyes  ;  I 
want  to  feel  the  liriille  in  my  mouth,  and  he  con- 
tinually reminded  of  my  own  weakness  and  the 
omnipotence  of  circumstances. 

Rejiectiom  and  Remarks. 

JUNE    FOURTH 

Honour  is  a  diamond  cut  in  a  thousand  facets, 

and   with   the   true   iire   in   each. 

Beau  Austin. 

JUNE    FIFTH 

Those  he  approves  that  ply  the  trade, 
That  rock  the  child,  that  wed  the  maid, 
That  with  weak  virtues,  weaker  hands, 
Sow  gladness  on  the  peopled  lands, 
And  still  with  laughter,  song,  and  shout. 
Spin  the  great  wheel  of  earth  about. 

Our  Lady  of  the  Sjio^ws. 

JUNE    SIXTH 

It    is    all   very   fine   to   talk   about    tramps   and 

morality.    ...    As   long   as   you    keep    in   the 

upper   regions,   with   all    the    world    bowing    to 

you  as  you  go,  social  arrangements  have  a  very 

handsome   air  \   but   once   get   under  the   wheels 

and  you  wish  society  were  at  the  devil.      I  will 

give  most  respectable  men  a  fortnight  of  such  a 

life,  and    then   I   will  offer  them  twopence   for 

what  remains  of  their  morality. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

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JUNE    SEVENTH 

The  best  that  we  find  in  our  travels  is  an  honest 
friend.  He  is  a  fortunate  voyager  who  finds 
manv.  \Ve  travel,  indeed,  to  find  them.  They 
are  the  end  and  the  reward  of  life.  They  keep 
us  worthy  of  ourselves  ;  and  when  we  are  alone, 
we  are  only  nearer  to  the  absent. 

Litters  to  Sydney  Col-vin. 

JUNE    EIGHTH 

We  like  to  have,  in  our  great  men,  something 
that  is  above  question  ;  we  like  to  place  an 
implicit  faith  in  them,  and  see  them  always  on 
the  platform  of  their  greatness. 

yictor  Hugo" s  Romances. 

JUNE   NINTH 

Outdoor  rustic  people  have  not  many  ideas,  but 
such  as  they  have  are  hardy  plants  and  thrive 
flourishingly  in  persecution.  (}nc  who  has 
grown  a  long  while  in  the  sweat  of  laborious 
noons,  and  under  the  stars  at  night,  a  frcciucntcr 
of  hills  and  forests,  an  old  honest  countryman, 
has,  in  the  end,  a  sense  of  communion  with 
the  powers  of  the  universe,  and  amicable  rela- 
tions towards   his   God. 

Tra-vels  avit/i  a  Donkey. 

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JUNE   TENTH 

We  do  our  good  and  bad  with  a  high  hand  and 
ahnost  offensively ;  and  make  even  our  ahiis 
a  witness-bearing    and    an    act    of   war  against 

the  wrono;. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

JUNE   ELEVENTH 

We  may  be  unjust,  but  when  a  man  despises 
commerce  and  philanthropy  alike,  and  has  views 
of  good  so  soaring  that  he  must  take  himself 
apart  from  mankind  for  their  cultivation,  we 
will  not  be  content  without  some  striking  act. 

Fatniliar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 

JUNE    TWELFTH 

The   journalist    is    not    reckoned    an   important 

officer;   yet  judge  of  the  good   he  might  do,  by 

the  harm  he  does. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

JUNE    THIRTEENTH 

The  spice  of  life  is  battle;  the  friendliest  rela- 
tions are  still  a  kind  of  contest;  and  if  we 
would  not  forego  all  that  is  valuable  in  our  lot, 
we  must  continually  face  some  other  person, 
eye  to  eye,  and  wrestle  a  fall  whether  in  love 

or  enmity. 

'Talk  and  Talkers. 

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JUNE   FOURTEENTH 

We  shall  always  shock  each  other  both  in  life 

and  art ;   we  cannot  get  the  sun  into  our  pictures, 

nor    the    abstract    right    (if    there    be    such    a 

thing)  into  our  books;    enough   if,   in   the  one, 

there  glimmer  some  hint  of  the  great  light  that 

blinds  us  from  heaven;  enough,  if,  on  the  other, 

there  shine,  even  upon  foul  details,  a  spirit   at 

magnanimity. 

Memories  and  Portraits. 

JUNE    FIFTEENTH 

The  best  of  men  and  the  best  of  women  may 
sometimes  live  together  all  their  lives,  and  for 
want  of  some  consent  on  fundamental  questions, 
hold  each  other  lost  spirits  to  the  end. 

Virginibus  Fuerisque. 

JUNE  SIXTEENTH 

Most  of  our  pocket  wisdom  is  conceived  for  the 

use  of  mediocre  people,  to  discourage  them  from 

ambitious  attempts,  and  generally  console  them 

in  their  mediocrity. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

JUNE  SEVENTEENTH 

Idleness  so  called,  which  docs  not  consist  in 
doing  nothing,  hut  in  doing  a  great  deal  not 
recognised   in   the  dogmatic   formularies  of   the 

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ruling   class,  has    as    good    a    right    to   state    its 

position   as   industry    itself. 

An  Apolo^  for  Idlers. 


JUNE  EIGHTEENTH 

No  man  can  find  out  the  world,  says  Solomon, 
from  bctiinnini!;  to  end,  because  the  world  is  in 
his  heart ;  and  so  it  is  impossible  for  any  of  us 
to  understand,  from  beginning  to  end,  that  agree- 
ment of  harmonious  circumstmces  that  creates 
in  us  the  highest  pleasure  of  admiration,  pre- 
cisely because  some  of  these  circumstances  are 
hidden   from   us  for  ever  in  the  constitution  of 

our  own  bodies. 

Ordered  South. 


JUNE  NINETEENTH 

People  usually  do  things  and  suffer  martyrdoms, 
because  they  have  an  inclination  that  way. 

The  English  Admirals. 

JUNE  TWENTIETH 

There   arc  two  reasons   for  the  choice  of   any 

way    of    life :    the    first    is    inbred   taste    in    the 

chooser;    the   second   some   high    utility  in    the 

industry   selected. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

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JUNE  TWENTY-FIRST 

To  sit  still  and  contemplate,  —  to  remember  the 

faces  of  women  without  desire,  to  be  pleased  by 

the    great    deeds  of    men   without    envy,  to  be 

everything    and    everywhere    in    sympathy,  and 

yet  content  to  remain  where  and  what  you  are 

—  is  not  this  to  know  both  wisdom  and  virtue, 

and    to  dwell   with   happiness?      After  all,  it  is 

not    they  who  carry  flags,  but    they   who  look 

upon  it  from  a  private  chamber,  who  have  the 

fun  of  the  procession. 

JValking  Tours. 

JUNE  TWENTY-SECOND 

There  's  such  a  thing  as  a  man  being  pious  and 

honest   in   the   private  way ;   and  there  is  such  a 

thing,  sir,  as  a   public  virtue;  but  when  a  man 

has  neither,  the  Lord  lighten  him  ! 

Prince  Errant. 

JUNE  TWENTY-THIRD 

The  average  man  lives,  and  must  live,  so  wholly 
in  convention,  that  gunpowder  charges  of  the 
truth  are  more  apt  to  discompose  than  to  in- 
vigorate his  creed. 

Books  avhich  finue  InflucnccJ  me. 

JUNE  TWENTY-FOURTH 

Ik-ttcr  that  our  serene  temples  were  deserted 
than  filled  with  trafficking  and  juggling  priests. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

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JUNE  TWENTY-FIFTH 

The  character  of  a  place  is  often  most  perfectly 
expressed  in  its  associations.  An  event  strikes 
root  and  grows  into  a  legend,  when  it  has  hap- 
pened amongst  congenial  surroundings.  Llgly 
actions,  above  all  in  ugly  places,  have  the  true 
romantic  quality,  and  become  an  undying  prop- 
erty of  their  scene. 

Legends. 

JUNE  TWENTY-SIXTH 

So  long    as    men    do  their   duty,  even   if    it  be 

greatly  in  a  misapprehension,  they  will  be  leading 

pattern  lives  ;  and  whether  or  not  they  come  to 

lie  beside  a  martyrs'  monument,  we  may  be  sure 

they  will  find  a  safe  haven   somewhere  in  the 

providence  of  God. 

Greyfriars. 

JUNE  TWENTY-SEVENTH 

You  have  perhaps  only  one  friend  in  the  world 
in  whose  esteem  it  is  worth  while  for  you  to 
right  yourself.  Justification  to  indifferent  per- 
sons is,  at  best,  an  impertinent  intrusion.  Let 
them  think  what  they  please;  they  will  be  the 
more  likely  to  forgive  you  in  the  end. 

Refltctions  and  Remarks. 

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JUNE   TWENTY-EIGHTH 

There  is  a  duty  to  the  living  more  important 
than  any  charity  to  the  dead. 

JForks  of  Eiigar  Allan  Foe. 

JUNE   TWENTY-NINTH 

There  are  strange  depths  of  idleness  in  man,  a 
too-easily-got  sufficiency,  as  in  the  case  of  the 
sago-eaters,  often  quenching  the  desire  for  all 
besides  ;  and  it  is  possible  that  the  men  of  the 
richest  ant-heaps  may  sink  even  into  squalor. 

T/ie  Day  after  To-morro^w. 

JUNE    THIRTIETH 

I  am  not  so  blind  but  that  I  know  I  might  be  a 
murderer  or  even  a  traitor  to-morrow;  and  now, 
as  if  I  were  not  already  too  feelingly  alive  to  my 
misdeeds,  I  must  choose  out  the  one  person 
whom  I  most  desire  to  please,  and  make  her  the 
daily  witness  of  my  failures,  I  must  give  a  part 
in  all  my  dishonours  to  the  one  person  who  can 
feel  them  more  keenly  than  myself.  In  all  our 
daring,  magnanimous  human  way  of  lite,  I  linil 
nothing  more  bold  than  this.  To  go  into  battle 
is  but  a  small  thing  by  comparison.  It  is  the  last 
act  of  committal.  After  that,  there  is  no  way 
left,  not  even  suicide,  but  to  be  a  g(n)d  man. 

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JULY 


JULY    FIRST 

THIS  world   in   itself  is   but   a   painful   and 
uneasy    place    of    residence,    and    lasting 
happiness,  at  least  to   the  self-conscious,  comes 

only  from   within. 

Familiar  Studies —  Thoreau. 


JULY    SECOND 

The  farmer's  life  is  natural  and  simple;  but  the 
prince's  is  both  artificial  and  complicated.  Jt  is 
easy  to  do  right  in  the  one,  and  exceedingly 
difficult  not  to  do  wrong  in  the  other.  If  your 
crop  is  blighted,  you  can  take  ofl  your  bonnet 
and  say,  "  God's  will  be  done ; "  but  if  the 
prince  meets  with  a  reverse,  he  may  have  to 
blame  himself  for  the  attempt.  And  perhaps, 
if  all  the  kings  in  Europe  were  to  confine  them- 
selves to  innocent  amusement,  the  subjects  would 
be  the  better  off. 

Prince  Errant. 


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JULY  THIRD 

Out  of  the  strong  comes  forth  sweetness;  but 
an  ill  thing  poorly  done  is  an  ill  thing  top  and 

bottom. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

JULY  FOURTH 

Any  man  can  see  ahd  understand  a  picture ;  it  is 

reserved  for  the  few  to  separate  anything  out  of 

the  confusion  of  nature,  and  see  that  distinctly 

and  with  intelligence. 

An  Autumn  Effect. 

JULY    FIFTH 

The  future  is  nothing ;  but  the  past  is  myself, 
my  own  history,  the  seed  of  my  present  thoughts, 
the  mould  of  my  present  disposition.  It  is  not 
in  vain  that  I  return  to  the  nothings  of  my 
childhood  ;  for  every  one  of  them  has  left  some 
stamp  upon  me  or  put  some  fetter  on  my 
boasted  free-will.  In  the  past  is  my  present 
fate  J    and   in  the  past  also  is  my  real  life. 

A  Retrospect. 

JULY    SIXTH 

The  forest  is  by  itself,  and  forest  life  owns  small 
kinship  with  life  in  the  dismal  land  of  labour. 
Men  are  so  far  sophisticated  that  they  cannot 
take  the  world  as  it  is  given  to  them  by  the 
sight   of  their  eyes.      Not  only  what   they    see 

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and   hear,  but    what   they  know   to   be   behind, 

enter  into  their  notion  of  a  place. 

Forest  Notes. 

JULY    SEVENTH 

A  time   comes   for  all   men   when  the   helm   is 

taken  out  of  their  hands. 

mil  o'  the  Mill. 

JULY    EIGHTH 

For    my    part,  I    am   body   and    soul  with    the 

women ;  and  after  a  well-married  couple,  there 

is  nothing  so  beautiful  in  the  world  as  the  myth 

of  the  divine  huntress. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

JULY    NINTH 

It  is  not  easy  to  say  who  know  the  Lord  ;  and  it 
is  none  of  our  business.  Protestants  and  Cath- 
olics, and  even  those  who  worship  stones,  may 
know  Him  and  be  known  of  Him;   for  He  has 

made  all. 

The  Country  of  the  CamisarJs. 

JULY   TENTH 

There  is  no  friendship  so  noble,  but  it  is  the 
product  of  time  ;  and  a  world  of  little  finical  ob- 
servances, and  little  frail  proprieties  and  fashions 
of  the  hcnir,  go  to  make  or  to  mar,  to  stint  or  to 
perfect,  the  union  (»f  spirits  the  most  loving  and 
the  most  intolerant  of  such  interference. 

Familiar  Studies  —  John  Knox. 

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JULY    ELEVENTH 

What  seems  a  kind  of  temporal  death  to  people 
choked  between  walls  and  curtains,  is  only  a  light 
and  living  slumber  to  the  man  who  sleeps  afield. 

Travels  ivit/i  a  Donkey. 

JULY    TWELFTH 

Alas !  I  fear  every  man  and  woman  of  us  is 
"greatly  dark"  to  all  their  neighbours,  from  the 
day  of  birth  until  death  removes  them,  in  their 
greatest  virtues  as  well  as  in  their  saddest  faults. 

Some  Aspects  of  Robert  Burns. 

JULY    THIRTEENTH 

No  measure  comes  before  Parliament  but  it  has 
been  long  ago  prepared  by  the  grand  jury  of  the 
talkers;  no  book  is  written  that  has  not  been 
largely  composed  by  their  assistance. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 

JULY    FOURTEENTH 

That  people  should  laugh  over  the  same  sort  of 
jests,  and  have  many  a  story  of  "grouse  in  the 
gun  room,"  many  an  old  joke  between  them 
which  time  cannot  wither  nor  custom  stale,  is  a 
better  preparation  for  life,  by  your  leave,  than 
many  other  things  higher  and  better  sounding 
in  the  world's  ears.     You  could  read   Kant  by 

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yourself,  if   you   wanted  ;    but  you   must    share 

a  joke  with  some  one  else. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

JULY    FIFTEENTH 

All  sorts  of  allowances  are  made  for  the  illusions 

of  youth  ;    and   none,  or  almost   none,  for  the 

disenchantments  of  age. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

JULY    SLXTEENTH 

An  inquiry  must  be  in  some  acknowledged  direc- 
tion, with  a  name  to  go  by  ;  or  else  you  are  not 
inquiring  at  all,  only  lounging;  and  the  work- 
house is  too  good  for  you. 

An  Apology  for  Idlers. 

JULY    SEVENTEENTH 

We  admire  splendid  views  and  great  pictures ; 

and   yet  what   is   truly  admirable   is    rather    the 

mind    within    us,    that    gathers    together    these 

scattered  details  for  its  delight,  and  makes  out  of 

certain  colours,  certain  distributions  of  graduated 

liirht  and  darkness,  that  intclliLrible  whole  which 

alone  we  call  a  picture  or  a  view. 

Ordered  South. 

JULY    EIGHTEEN TFI 

A  man  should  be  ashamed  to  take  his  food  if  he 

has  not  alchemy  enough  in  his  stomach  to  turn 

Stjmc  of  it  into  intense  and  enjoyable  occupation. 

Familiar  Studies  —  IVult  IVhilman. 

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JULY    NINETEENTH 

Discomfort,  when  it  is  honestly  uncomfortable 
and  makes  no  nauseous  pretensions  to  the  con- 
trary, is  a  vastly  humorous  business;  and  people 
well  steeped  and  stupefied  in  the  open  air  are  in 

a  good  vein  for  laughter. 

Inland  Voyage. 

JULY  TWENTIETH 

Shut  your  eyes  hard  against  the  recollection  of 

your  sins.     Do  not  be  afraid,  you  will  not  be 

able  to  forget  them. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

JULY  TWENTY-FIRST 

Now,  what  I  like  so  much  in  France  is  the  clear, 

unflinching  recognition  by  everybody  of  his  own 

luck.     They  all  know  on  which  side  their  bread 

is  buttered,  and  take  a  pleasure  in  showing  it  to 

others,  which  is  surely  the  better  part  of  religion. 

And  they  scorn  to  make  a  poor  mouth  over  their 

poverty,  which  I  take  to  be  the  better  part  of 

manliness. 

Sambre  and  Oise  Canal. 

JULY  TWENTY-SECOND 

I  could  never  fathom  how  a  man  dares. to  lift  up 
his  voice  to  preach  in  a  cathedral.  What  is  he 
to  say  that  will  not  be  an  anti-climax  ?  For 
though  I  have  heard  a  considerable  variety  of 
sermons,  I    never   yet    heard    one    that    was    so 

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expressive   as   a   cathedral.   .   .   .  Like   all  good 

preachers,  it   sets  you   preaching  to  yourself,  — 

and  every  man  is  his  own  doctor  of  divinity  in 

the  last  resort. 

Noyon  Cathedral. 

JULY  TWENTY-THIRD 

Leave  not,  my  soul,  the  unfoughten  field,  nor 

leave 
Thy  debts  dishonoured,  nor  thy  place  desert 
Without  due  service  rendered. 

Underivoods. 

JULY  TWENTY-FOURTH 

It  is  through  our  affections  that  we  are  smitten 
with  the  true  pain,  even  the  pain  that  kills. 

Admiral  Guinea. 

JULY  TWENTY-FIFTH 

Whatever  keeps  a  man  in  the  front  garden, 
whatever  checks  wandering  fancy  and  all  inor- 
dinate ambition,  whatever  makes  for  lounging 
and    contentment,    makes    just     so    surely    for 

domestic   happiness. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

JULY  TWENTY-SIXTH 

There  can  be  nr)  fairer  ambition  than  to  excel 
in  talk  ;  to  be  affable,  gay,  ready,  clear,  and  wel- 
come ;  to  have  a  fact,  a  thought,  or  an  illustration, 
pat  to  every  subject ;  and  not  only  to  chtc  r  the 
flight  of  time  among  our  intimates,  but  bear  our 

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part  in  that  great  international  congress,  always 
sitting,  where  public  wrongs  are  first  declared, 
public  errors  first  corrected,  and  the  course  of 
public  opinion  shaped,  day  by  day,  a  little  nearer 


to  the  ri<i;ht. 


Talk  and  Talkers. 


JULY  TWENTY-SEVENTH 

The  gift  of  reading,  as  I  have  called  it,  is  not 
very  common,  nor  very  generally  understood. 
It  consists,  first  of  all,  in  a  vast  intellectual  en- 
dowment—  a  free  grace,  I  find  I  must  call  it  — 
by  which  a  man  rises  to  understand  that  he  is 
not  punctually  right,  nor  those  from  whom  he 
differs  absolutely  wrong. 

Books  njuhich  hanje  Influenced  me, 

JULY  TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Good  food,  honest  wine,  a  grateful  conscience, 
and  a  little  pleasant  chat  before  a  man  retires,  are 
worth  all  the  possets  and  apothecary's  drugs. 

Prince  Errant. 

JULY  TWENTY-NINTH 

Waiting  is  good  hunting,  and  when  the  teeth  are 

shut  the  tongue  is  at  home. 

Fable  of  the  Touchstone. 

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JULY  THIRTIETH 

The  love  of  parents  for  their  children  is,  of  all 
natural  affections,  the  most  ill-starred.  It  is  not 
a  love  for  the  person,  since  it  begins  before  the 
person  has  come  into  the  world,  and  founds  on 
an  imaginary  character  and  looks.  Thus  it  is 
foredoomed  to  disappointment ;  and  because  the 
parent  either  looks  for  too  much,  or  at  least  for 
something  inappropriate,  at  his  offsprings'  hands, 
it  is  too  often  insufficiently  repaid.  The  natural 
bond,  besides,  is  stronger  from  parent  to  child 
than  from  child  to  parent ;  and  it  is  the  side 
which  confers  benefits,  not  which  receives  them, 
that  thinks  most  of  a  relation. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

JULY  THIRTY-FIRST 

I  would    not  willingly  have  to  do  with  even  a 

police  constable  in  any  other  spirit  than  that  of 

kindness. 

The  Day  after  To-morroav. 


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AUGUST 


AUGUST    FIRST 

IT  is  a  difficult  matter  to  make  the  most  of  any 
given  place,  and  we  have  much  in  our  own 
power.  Things  looked  at  patiently  from  one 
side  after  another  generally  end   by  showing  a 

side  that   is  beautiful. 

Unpleasant  Places. 

AUGUST    SECOND 

Dilettante  is  now  a  term  of  reproach  ;  but  there 
is  a  certain  form  of  dilettantism  to  which  no  one 
can  object.  It  is  this  that  we  want  among  our 
students.  We  wish  them  to  abandon  no  sub- 
ject until  they  have  seen  and  felt  its  merit  — 
to  act  under  a  general  interest  in  all  branches  of 
knowledge,  not  a  commercial  eagerness  to  excel 

in  one. 

The  Modern  Student. 

AUGUST    THIRD 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  a  numerous  and  enterpris- 
ing generation  of  writers  will  follow  and  surpass 
the  present  one  i   bm  it   would   be  better  if  the 

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stream   were    stayed,   and   the    roll   of   our   old, 

honest,   English   books    were   closed,  than    that 

esurient  bookmakers  should  continue  to  debase 

a  brave  tradition  and  lower,  in  their  own  eyes, 

a  famous  race. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

AUGUST    FOURTH 

There  is  a  day  appointed  for  all  when  they  shall 
turn  again  upon  their  own  philosophy. 

Of  Lo've  and  Politics. 

AUGUST    FIFTH 

Life  is  a  business  we  are  all  apt  to  mismanage; 
either  living  recklessly  from  day  to  day,  or 
suffering  ourselves  to  be  gulled  out  of  our 
moments  by  the  inanities  of  custom.  We 
should  despise  a  man  who  gave  as  little  activity 
and  forethought  to  the  conduct  of  any  other 
business.  But  in  this,  which  is  the  one  thing 
of  all  others,  since  it  contains  them  all,  we 
cannot  see  the   forest   for  the  trees. . 

Familiar  Studies  —  IValt  Whitman. 

AUGUST    SIXTH 

People  connected  with  literature  and  philosophy 
are  busy  all  their  days  in  getting  rid  of  second- 
hand notions  and  false  standards.  It  is  their 
profession,  in  the  sweat  of  their  brows,  by 
dogged  thiiiking,  to  recover  their  old  fresh  view 

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of   life,   and    distinguish    what    they    really    and 

originally  like  from  what  they  have  only  learned 

to  tolerate  perforce. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

AUGUST    SEVENTH 

It  is  a  good  rule  to  be  on  your  guard  wherever 

you   hear  great   professions  about   a   very   little 

piece  of  virtue. 

Do-wn  the  Oise. 

AUGUST    EIGHTH 

Charity  begins  blindfold ;  and  only  through  a 
series  of  similar  misapprehensions  rises  at  length 
into  a  settled  principle  of  love  and  patience,  and 
a  firm  belief  in  all  our  fellow-men. 

Tra'vels  njuith  a  Donkey. 

AUGUST    NINTH 

The  positive  virtues  are  imperfect ;  thev  are 
even  ugly  in  their  imperfection  :  for  man's  acts, 
by  the  necessity  of  his  being,  arc  coarse  and 
mingled.  The  kindest,  in  the  course  of  a  day  of 
active  kindnesses,  will  say  some  things  rudely, 
and  do  some  things  cruelly;  the  most  honour- 
able, perhaps,  trembles  at  his  nearness  to  a  doubt- 
ful act. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

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AUGUST   TENTH 

Though  we  should  be  grateful  for  good  houses, 
there  is,  after  all,  no  house  like  God's  out-of- 
doors.     And  lastly,  sir,  it  quiets  a  man  down  like 

saying  his  prayers. 

Prince  Errant. 

AUGUST    ELEVENTH 

To  conceal  a  sentiment,  if  you  are  sure  you 
hold  it,  is  to  take  a  liberty  with  truth.  There 
is  probably  no  point  of  view  possible  to  a  sane 
man  but  contains  some  truth  and,  in  the  true 
connection,  might  be  profitable  to  the  race. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

AUGUST    TWELFTH 

Literature  in  many  of  its  branches  is  no  other 

than  the  shadow  of  good  talk  ;  but  the  imitation 

falls  far  short  of  the  original  in  life,  freedom,  and 

effect. 

Talk  and  Talkers, 

AUGUST   THIRTEENTH 

It  is  more  important  that  a  person  should  be  a 
good  gossip,  and  talk  pleasantly  and  smartly  of 
common  friends  and  the  thousand  and  one 
nothings  of  the  day  and  hour,  than  that  she 
should  speak  with  the  tongues  of  men  and 
angels;  for  a  while  together  by  the  fire,  happens 

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more  frequently  in  marriage  than  the  presence 
of  a  distinguished  foreigner  to  dinner. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

AUGUST    FOURTEENTH 

Our  affections  and  beliefs  are  wiser  than  we; 
the  best  that  is  in  us  is  better  than  we  can 
understand;  for  it  is  grounded  beyond  experi- 
ence, and  guides  us,  blindfold,  but  safe,  from 
one  age  on  to  another. 

Letter  to  IVilliam  Ernest  Henley. 

AUGUST  FIFTEENTH 

The  study  of  conduct  has  to  do  with  grave 
problems;  not  every  action  should  be  higgled 
over;  one  of  the  leading  virtues  therein  is  to  let 
oneself  alone.  But  if  you  make  it  your  chief 
employment,  you  are  sure  to  meddle  too  much. 

Rejlections  and  Remarks. 

AUGUST    SIXTEENTH 

All  opinions,  properly  so  called,  are  stages  on  the 
road  to  truth.  It  does  not  follow  that  a  man 
will  travel  any  further  ;  but  if  he  has  really  con- 
sidered the  world   and   drawn   a   conclusion,  he 

has  travelled  as  far. 

Crabbed  Age  and  y'outft. 

[  75  ] 


AUGUST    SEVENTEENTH 

There  is  certainly  some  chill  and  arid  knowledge 
to  be  found  upon  the  summits  of  formal  and 
laborious  science;  but  it  is  all  round  about  you, 
and  for  the  trouble  of  looking,  that  you  will 
acquire  the  warm  and   palpitating   facts  of  life. 

An  Apology  for  Idlers. 

AUGUST   EIGHTEENTH 

An  aspiration   is  a  joy  for  ever,  a  possession  as 

solid  as  a  landed  estate,  a  fortune  which  we  can 

never  exhaust  and  which  gives  us  year  by  year  a 

revenue  of  pleasurable  activity.     To  have  many 

of  these  is  to  be  spiritually  rich. 

El  Dorado. 

AUGUST    NINETEENTH 

The  child,  the  seed,  the  grain  of  corn, 

The  acorn  on  the  hill. 

Each  for  some  separate  end  is  born 

In  season  fit,  and  still 

Each  must  in  strength  arise  to  work 

The  almighty  will. 

Vnderiuoods. 

AUGUST    TWENTIETH 

Education,  philosophers  are  agreed,  is  the  most 
philosophical  of  duties. 

The.  Treasure  of  Tranchard. 

[  7^  ] 


AUGUST    TWENTY-FIRST 

Let  my  life,  then,  flow  like  common  lives,  each 

pain  rewarded  with  some  pleasure,  some  pleasure 

linked  with   some  pain  :    nothing  pure  whether 

for  good  or  evil :   and  my  husband,  like  myself, 

and  all  the  rest  of  us,  only  a  poor  kind-hearted 

sinner,  striving  for  the  better  part.     What  more 

could  any  woman  ask  ? 

Admiral  Guinea. 


AUGUST    TWENTY-SECOND 

The   self-made    man    is   the    funniest    wind-bag 

after  all !    There  is  a  marked  difference  between 

decreeing  light  in  chaos,  and  lighting  the  gas  in 

a  metropolitan  back-parlor  with  a  box  of  patent 

matches  ;   and,  do  what  we  will,  there  is  always 

something   made  to  our   hand,  if  it  were  only 

our  fingers. 

Do'Tvn  t/ie  Oise. 


AUGUST    TWENTY-THIRD 

\im  can  forgive  people  who  do  not  follow  you 
through  a  philosophical  disquisition;  but  to  liiul 
your  wife  laughing  when  you  had  tears  in  )'cjur 
eyes,  or  staring  when  you  were  in  a  iit  ot 
laughter,  would  go  some  way  towards  a  dissolu- 
tion of  the  marriage. 

yirginihus  Puirisqtie. 


[-7] 


AUGUST    TWENTY-FOURTH 

Each  man  should  learn  what  is  within  him,  that 
he  may  strive  to  mendj  he  must  be  taught  what  is 
without  him,  that  he  may  be  kind  to  others. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

AUGUST   TWENTY-FIFTH 

We  must  all  work  for  the  sake  of  work ;  we 
must  all  work,  as  Thorcau  says  again,  in  any 
*' absorbing  pursuit  —  it  does  not  much  matter 
what,  so  it  be  honest ;  "  but  the  most  profitable 
work  is  that  which  combines  into  one  continued 
effort  the  largest  proportion  of  the  powers  and 
desires  of  a  man's  nature ;  that  into  which  he 
will  plunge  with  ardour,  and  from  which  he  will 
desist  with  reluctance ;  in  which  he  will  know 
the  weariness  of  fatigue,  but  not  that  of  satiety  ; 
and  which  will  be  ever  fresh,  pleasing,  and  stimu- 
lating to  his  taste.  Such  work  holds  a  man 
together,  braced  at  all  points ;  it  does  not  suffer 
him  to  doze  or  wander;  it  keeps  him  actively 
conscious  of  himself,  yet  raised  among  superior 
interests  ;  it  gives  him  the  profit  of  industry  with 
the  pleasures  of  a  pastime. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 

AUGUST   TWENTY-SIXTH 

We  are  all  for  tootling  on  the  sentimental  flute 
in  literature;  and  not  a  man  among  us  will  go 

[    78   ] 


to  the   head   of  the   march  to  sound   the  heady 

drums. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

AUGUST   TWENTY-SEVENTH 

A  clean  shrift  makes  simple  living. 

Will  o'  the  Mill. 

AUGUST    TWENTY-EIGHTH 

If  we  find  but  one  to  whom  we  can  speak  out 

of  our  heart  freely,  with  whom  we  can  walk  in 

love   and    simplicity    without    dissimulation,  we 

have  no  ground  of  quarrel  with  the  world  or 

God. 

The  Country  of  the  Camisards. 

AUGUST   TWENTY-NINTH 

Our  judgments  are  based  upon  two  things: 
first,  upon  the  original  preferences  of  our  soul; 
but  second,  upon  the  mass  of  testimony  to  the 
nature  of  God,  man,  and  the  universe  which 
reaches  us,  in  divers  manners,  from  without. 
■  For  the  most  part  these  divers  manners  arc  re- 
ducible to  one,  all  that  we  learn  of  past  times 
and  much  that  we  learn  of  our  own  reaching  us 
through  the  medium  of  books  or  papers,  and 
even  he  who  cannot  read  learning  from  the  same 
source  at  second-hand  and  by  the  report   of  him 

who  can. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

[  79  J 


AUGUST    THIRTIETH 

Satire,  the  angry  picture  of  human  faults,  is  not 
great  art ;  we  can  all  be  angry  with  our  neigh- 
bour ;  what  we  want  is  to  be  shown,  not  his 
defects,  of  which  we  are  too  conscious,  but  his 
merits,  to  which  we  are  too  blind. 

Books  ^wh'tch  hanje  Influenced  me. 

AUGUST   THIRTY-FIRST 

A  great  part  of  this  life  consists  in  contemplating 
what  we  cannot  cure. 

The  Master  of  Ballantrae. 


[    80    ] 


SEPTEMBER 


SEPTEMBER    FIRST 

T70RTUNE  turns  the  wheel.     They  say  she 

-*-     is  blind,  but  we  will  hope  she  only  sees  a 

little  farther  on. 

Prince  Errant. 

SEPTEMBER    SECOND 

It  is  only  with  a  few  rare  natures  that  friendship 
is  added  to  friendship,  love  to  love,  and  the  man 
keeps  growing  richer  in  affection  - —  richer,  I 
mean,  as  a  bank  may  be  said  to  grow  richer,  both 
giving  and  receiving  more — after  his  head  is 
white  and  his  back  weary,  and  he  prepares  to 
go  down  into  the  dust  of  death. 

Familiar  Studies  —  John  Knox. 

SEPTEMBER    THIRD 

I  cannot  forgive  God  for  the  sufferings  of 
others;  when  I  look  abroad  upon  his  world  and 
behold  its  cruel  destinies,  I  turn  from  him  with 
disaffection  ;  nor  do  I  conceive  that  lie  will 
blame  me  for  the  impulse.  But  when  1  c(Mi- 
sider  my  own    fates,   I    grow  conscious   of  his 


gentle  dealing:   I  see  him  chastise  with  helpful 

blows,  1  feel  his  stripes  to  be  caresses ;  and  this 

knowledge  is  my  comfort  that  reconciles  me  to 

the  world. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

SEPTEMBER  FOURTH 

Hurry  is  the  resource  of  the  faithless.  Where 
a  man  can  trust  his  own  heart,  and  those  of  his 
friends,  to-morrow  is  as  good  as  to-day. 

Doivn  the  Oise. 

SEPTEMBER  FIFTH 

Perhaps  there  is  no  subject  on  which  a  man 
should  speak  so  gravely  as  that  industry,  what- 
ever it  may  be,  which  is  the  occupation  or  delight 
of  his  life  ;  which  is  his  tool  to  earn  or  serve 
with ;  and  which,  if  it  be  unworthy,  stamps 
himself  as  a  mere  incubus  of  dumb  and  greedy 
bowels  on  the  shoulders  of  labouring  humanity. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

SEPTEMBER  SIXTH 

Hope,  they  say,  deserts  us  at  no  period  of  our 

existence.      From   first  to  last,  and   in  the  face 

of  smarting  disillusions,  we  continue  to  expect 

good   fortune,  better  health,  and  better  conduct ; 

and  that  so  confidently  that  we  judge  it  needless 

to  deserve  them. 

Virginibus  Puerisqtie. 

[    82    ] 


SEPTEMBER  SEVENTH 

To  hold  the  same  views  at  forty  as  we  held  at 

twenty  is  to  have  been  stupefied  for  a  score  of 

years,  and  take  rank,  not  as  a  prophet,  hut  as  an 

unteachable  brat,  well  birched  and  none  the  wiser. 

It  is  as  if  a  ship  captain  should  sail  to  India  from 

the  Port  of  London  ;  and  having  brought  a  chart 

of  the  Thames  on  deck  at  his  first  setting  out, 

should  obstinately  use    no  other  for  the   whole 

voyage. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

SEPTEMBER  EIGHTH 

Perpetual  devotion  to  what  a  man  calls  his  busi- 
ness, is  only  to  be  sustained  by  perpetual  neglect 
of  many  things.  And  it  is  not  by  any  means 
certain  that  a  man's  business  is  the  most  impor- 
tant thing  he  has  to  do. 

An  Apology  for  Idlers. 

SEPTEMBER   NINTH 

In  this  world,  in  spite  of  its  many  agreeable 
features,  even  the  most  sensitive  must  undergo 
some  drudgery  to  live.  It  is  not  possible  to  de- 
vote your  time  to  study  and  meditation  without 
what  arc  quaintly  but  happily  denominated  pri- 
vate means  ;  these  absent,  a  man  must  contrive 
to  earn  his  bread  by  some  service  to  the  public 
such  as  the  public  cares  to  pay  him  for. 

Familiar  Studies —  Thoreau. 

L  83  J 


SErTEMBER  TENTH 

Wc  arc  in  such  haste  to  be  doing,  to  be  writing, 

to  be  gathering  gear,  to  make  our  voice  audible 

a  moment  in  the  derisive  silence  of  eternity,  that 

we  forget  that  one  thing,  of  which  these  are  but 

the  parts  —  namely,  to  live.     We   fall   in  love, 

we  drink  hard,  we  run  to  and  fro  upon  the  earth 

like  frightened  sheep.      And  now  you  are  to  ask 

yourself  if,  when  all  is  done,  you  would  not  have 

been  better  to  sit  by  the  fire  at  home,  and  be 

happy  thinking. 

Walking  Tours. 

SEPTEMBER   ELEVENTH 

The  essence  of  love  is  kindness. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

SEPTEMBER  TWELFTH 

The  course  of  our  education  is  answered  best  bv 
those  poems  and  romances  where  we  breathe  a 
magnanimous  atmosphere  of  thought  and  meet 
generous  and  pious  characters. 

Bonks  'which  ha^e  Influenced  me. 

SEPTEMBER  THIRTEENTH 

A  good  son,  who  can  fulfil  what  is  expected  of 
him,  has  done  his  work  in  life.  He  has  to  re- 
deem the  sins  of  many,  and  restore  the  world's 

confidence  in  children. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

L   «4  ] 


SEPTEMBER  FOURTEENTH 

I  meant  when  I  was  a  young  man  to  write  a 
great  poem ;  and  now  I  am  cobbling  little  prose 
articles  and  in  excellent  good  spirits,  I  thank 
you.  So,  too,  I  meant  to  lead  a  life  that  should 
keep  mounting  from  the  first  ;  and  though  1 
have  been  repeatedly  down  again  below  sea-level, 
and  am  scarce  higher  than  when  I  started,  I  am 
as  keen  as  ever  for  that  enterprise.  Our  busi- 
ness in  this  world  is  not  to  succeed,  but  to 
continue  to   fail,  in   good   spirits. 

Discipline  of  Conscience. 

SEPTEMBER    FIFTEENTH 

It  were  to  be  desired  that  all  literary  work,  and 
chiefly  works  of  art,  issued  from  sound,  human, 
healthy,  and  potent  impulses,  whether  grave  or 
laughing,  humorous,  romantic,  or  religious.  Yet 
it  cannot  be  denied  that  some  valuable  books  arc- 
partially  insane  ;  some  mostly  religious,  partiallv 
inhuman  ;  and  very  many  tainted  with  morbidity 

and  impotence. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

SEPTEMBER    SIXTEENTH 

He   who   indulges   habitually  in   tlu-  intoxicating 

pleasures   of    imagination,    for    the    very    reason 

that    he    reaps    a   greater   pleasure   tli.ui    others, 

must  resign   himself    to  a   krencr   p.iin,  ;i    more 

intolerable   and   utter   prostration. 

//  Retrospect. 

I    «5    I 


SEPTEMBER    SEVENTEENTH 

When    we    arc    put    down    in    some    unsightly 

neighbourhood,  and  especially  if  we  have  come 

to  be  more  or   less  dependent  on  what  we  see, 

we   must   set   ourselves    to    hunt    out   beautiful 

things  with   all   the   ardour   and   patience   of  a 

botanist  after  a  rare  plant. 

Unpleasant  Places. 


SEPTEMBER    EIGHTEENTH 

All  the  world  may  be  an  aristocrat,  and  play 
the  duke  among  marquises,  and  the  reigning 
monarch  among  dukes,  if  he  will  only  outvie 
them  in  tranquillity.  An  imperturbable  de- 
meanour comes  from  perfect  patience.  Quiet 
minds  cannot  be  perplexed  or  frightened,  but  go 
on  in  fortune  or  misfortune  at  their  own  private 
place,  like  a  clock  during  a  thunder-storm. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 


SEPTEMBER    NINETEENTH 
It  is  very  nice  to  think 
The  world  is  full  of  meat  and  drink, 
With  little  children  saying  grace 

In  every  Christian  kind  of  place. 

A  Thought. 


[  86  ] 


SEPTEMBER    TWENTIETH 

All  we  men  and  women  have  our  sins ;  and 
they  are  a  pain  to  those  that  love  us,  and  the 
deeper  the  love,  the  crueller  the  pain. 

Admiral  Guinea. 

SEPTEMBER    TWENTY-FIRST 

For  my  part,  I  should  try  to  secure  some  part 
of  every  day  for  meditation,  above  all  in  the 
early  morning  and  the  open  air  i  but  how  that 
time  was  to  be  improved  I  should  leave  to  cir- 
cumstance and  the  inspiration  of  the  hour.  Nor 
if  I  spent  it  in  whistling  or  numbering  my 
footsteps,  should  I  consider  it  misspent  for  that. 
I  should  have  given  my  conscience  a  fair  field  ; 
when  it  has  anything  to  say,  I  know  too  well  it 
can  speak  daggers  ;  therefore,  for  this  time,  my 
hard  taskmaster  has  given  me  a  holy-day,  and  I 
may  go  in  again  rejoicing  to  my  breakfast  and 
the  human  business  of  the  day. 

Discipline  of  Conscience. 

SEPTEMBER    TWENTY-SECOND 

There  is  something  stupefying  in  the  recurrence 
of  unimportant  things.  And  it  is  only  on  rare 
provocations  that  we  can  rise  to  take  an  outlook 
beyond  daily  concerns,  and  comprehend  the  narrow 
limits  and  great  possibilities  of  our  existence. 

Familiar  Studies  —  IValt  Whitman. 

L  «7  ] 


SEPTEMBER    TWENTY-THIRD 

No  class  of  man  is  altogether  bad  ;  but  each  has 

its  own  faults  and  virtues. 

Kidnapped. 

SEPTEMBER    TWENTY-FOURTH 

It  is  one  of  the  worst  things  of  sentiment  that 

the  voice  grows  to  be  more  important  than  the 

words,    and    the    speaker    than    that    which    is 

spoken. 

The  Master  of  Ballantrae. 

SEPTEMBER    TWENTY-FIFTH 

We  should  hesitate  to  assume  command  of  an 

army  or  a  trading-smack  ;  shall  we  not  hesitate 

to  become  surety  for  the  life  and  happiness,  now 

and   henceforward,  of  our  dearest  friend  ?      To 

be  nobody's  enemy  but  one's  own,  although  it  is 

never  possible  to  any,  can  least  of  all  be  possible 

to  one  who  is  married. 

Reflections  and  Remarks 

SEPTEMBER   TWENTY-SIXTH 

Even  in  love  there  are  unlovely  humours;  am- 
biguous acts,  unpardonable  words,  may  yet  have 
sprung  from  a  kind  sentiment.  If  the  injured 
one  could  read  your  heart,  you  may  be  sure  that 
he  would  understand  and  pardon  ;  but,  alas  !  the 
heart  cannot  be  shown  —  it  has  to  be  demon- 
strated in  words. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

[  «8  ] 


SEPTEMBER    TWENTY-SEVENTH 

That  for  which  man  lives  is  not  the  same  thing 

for  all  individuals  nor  in  all  ages;  yet  it  has  a 

common  base ;  what  he  seeks  and  what  he  must 

have    is   that    which    will    seize    and    hold    his 

attention. 

The  Day  after  To-morroiv. 

SEPTEMBER  TWENTY-EIGHTH 

The  correction  of  silence  is  what  kills;  when 
you  know  you  have  transgressed,  and  your  friend 
says  nothing  and  avoids  your  eye. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 

SEPTEMBER  TWENTY-NINTH 

As  we  go  catching  and  catching  at  this  or  that 

corner  of  knowledge,  now  getting  a  foresight  of 

generous  possibilities,  now  chilled  with  a  glimpse 

of   prudence,   we    may    compare    the    headlong 

course  of  our  years  to  a  swift  torrent  in  which  a 

man  is  carried  away  ;  now  he  is  dashed  against 

a  boulder,  now  he  grapples  for  a  moment  to  2 

trailing   sprav  ;   at  the  end,  he  is  hurled  out  ;uul 

overwhelmed    in   a  dark   and  bottomless  ocean. 

We  have  no  more  than  glimpses  and  touches  ; 

we   arc  torn   away   from   our  theories  ;    we  are 

spun    round  and  round  and   shown   this  or  the 

other  view  of  life,  until  only  fools  or  knaves  can 

hold  to  their  opinions. 

Crabbiil  /ige  and  t'uut/i. 

L  89  ] 


SEPTEMBER  THIRTIETH 

Nothing  grave  has  yet  befallen  me  but  I  have 
been  able  to  reconcile  my  mind  to  its  occurrence, 
and  see  in  it,  from  my  own  little  and  partial 
point  of  view,  an  evidence  of  a  tender  and  pro- 
tecting God.  Even  the  misconduct  into  which 
I  have  been  led  has  been  blessed  to  my  improve- 
ment. If  I  did  not  sin,  and  that  so  glaringly 
that  my  conscience  is  convicted  on  the  spot,  I 
do  not  know  what  I  should  become,  but  I  feel 

sure  I  should  grow  worse. 

Gratitude  to  God. 


[   90    ] 


OCTOBER 


OCTOBER  FIRST 

O ING  a  song  of  seasons  ! 

Something  bright  in  all ! 
Flowers  in  the  summer. 
Fires  in  the  fall ! 


Autumn  Fires. 


OCTOBER  SECOND 

It  is  the  mark  of  a  good  action  that  it  appears 
inevitable  in  the  retrospect.  We  should  have 
been  cut-throats  to  do  otherwise.  And  there  's 
an  end.  We  ought  to  know  distinctly  that  we 
are  damned  for  what  we  do  wrong  ;  but  when 
we  have  done  right,  we  have  only  been  gentle- 
men, after    all.     There   is    nothing  to  make  a 

work  about. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

OCTOBER  THIRD 

New  truth  is  only  useful  to  supplement  the  old  ; 
rough  truth  is  only  wanted  to  expand,  not  to 
destroy,  our  civil  and  often  elegant  conventions. 
He  who  cannot  judge  had  better  stick  to  fiction 

L  9"    J 


and   the  dailv   papers.       There  he  will  get  little 
harm,  and,  in  the  first  at  least,  some  good. 

Books  njuhich  hwve  Influenced  me. 


OCTOBER  FOURTH 

Surely,  at  this  time  of  day  in  the  nineteenth 
century,  there  is  nothing  that  an  honest  man 
should  fear  more  timorously  than  getting  and 
spending   more   than  he  deserves. 

Profession  of  Letters. 


OCTOBER  FIFTH 

People  are  all  glad  to  shut  their  eyes  ;  and  it 
gives  them  a  very  simple  pleasure  when  they 
can  forget  that  our  laws  commit  a  million  indi- 
vidual injustices,  to  be  once  roughly  just  in  the 
general  ;  that  the  bread  that  we  eat,  and  the 
quiet  of  the  family,  and  all  that  embellishes  life 
and  makes  it  worth  having,  have  to  be  purchased 
by  death  —  by  the  deaths  of  animals,  and  the 
deaths  of  men  wearied  out  with  labor,  and  the 
deaths  of  those-  criminals  called  tyrants  and 
revolutionaries,  and  the  deaths  of  those  revolu- 
tionaries called  criminals. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Victor  Hugo. 


[    92    ] 


OCTOBER   SIXTH 

It  is  a  question  hard  to  he  resolved,  whether  you 
should  at  any  time  criminate  another  to  defend 
yourself.  I  have  done  it  many  times,  and  al- 
ways had  a  troubled  conscience  for  my  pains. 

Justice  and  Justification. 

OCTOBER  SEVENTH 

There    is    always    something   painful  in   sudden 

contact  with  the  good  qualities  that  we  do  not 

possess. 

A  Retrospect. 

OCTOBER    EIGHTH 

Falling  in  love  and  winning  love  are  often  diffi- 
cult tasks  to  overbearing  and  rebellious  spirits  -, 
but  to  keep  in  love  is  also  a  business  of  some 
importance,  to  which   both  man  and  wife  must 

bring  kindness  and  goodwill. 

El  Dorado. 

OCTOBER    NINTH 

As  courage  and  intelligence  are  the  two  qualities 
best  worth  a  good  man's  cultivation,  so  it  is  the 
first  part  of  intelligence  to  recognise  our  pre- 
carious estate  in  life,  and  the  first  part  of  cour- 
age to  be  not  at  all  abashed  before  the  fact. 

Acs    Irlf'lex. 

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OCTOBER   TENTH 

Trees  are  the  most  civil  society.  An  old  oak 
that  has  been  growing  where  he  stands  since 
before  the  Reformation,  taller  than  many  spires, 
more  stately  than  the  greater  part  of  mountains, 
and  yet  a  living  thing,  liable  to  sicknesses  and 
death,  like  you  and  me  :  is  not  that  in  itself  a 
speaking  lesson  in  history  ? 

On  the  Sambre  Canalized. 

OCTOBER    ELEVENTH 

The  more  you  look  into  it  the  more  infinite  are 

the  class  distinctions  among  men  ;   and  possibly, 

by  a  happy  dispensation,  there  is  no  one  at  all 

at  the  bottom  of  the  scale  ;   no  one  but  can  find 

some  superiority  over  somebody  else,  to  keep  up 

his  pride  withal. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

OCTOBER    TWELFTH 

God  made  you,  but  you  marry  yourself;  and  for 

all  that  your  wife  suffers,  no  one  is  responsible 

but  you. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

OCTOBER    THIRTEENTH 

Let  us,  by  all  means,  fight  against  that  hide- 
bound stolidity  of  sensation  and  sluggishness  of 
mind  which  blurs  and  decolorises  for  poor 
natures  the  wonderful  pageant  of  consciousness  ; 
let    us   teach    people,   as    much    as    we   can,  to 

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enjoy,  and  they  will  learn  for  themselves  to 
sympathise;  but  let  us  see  to  it,  above  all,  that 
we  give  these  lessons  in  a  brave,  vivacious  note, 
and  build  the  man  up  in  courage  while  we 
demolish  its  substitute,  indifference. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Walt  Whitman. 

OCTOBER    FOURTEENTH 

Bv   managing   its   own   work  and   following   its 

own  happy  inspiration,  youth  is  doing  the  best  it 

can  to  endow  the  leisure  of  age.      A  full,  busy 

youth   is  your  only  prelude  to  a  self-contained 

and  independent  ag». 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

OCTOBER    FIFTEENTH 

Talk  is  indeed,  both  the  scene  and  instrument  of 
friendship.  It  is  in  talk  alone  that  the  friends 
can  measure  strength,  and  enjoy  that  amicable 
counter-assertion  of  personality  which  is  the 
gauge  of  relations  and  the  sport   of  lite. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 

OCTOBER    SIXTEENTH 

We  must  all  set  our  pocket  watches  by  the 
clock  of  fate.  There  is  a  headlong,  forthright 
tide,  that  bears  away  man  with  his  fancies  like 
straw,  and  runs  fast  in  time  and  space. 

Doivtt  the  Oise. 


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OCTOBER    SEVENTEENTH 

You  would  think,  when  the  child  was  born,  there 
would  be  an  end  to  trouble  ;  and  yet  it  is  only 
the  beginning  of  fresh  anxieties;  and  when  you 
have  seen  it  through  its  teething  and  its  educa- 
tion, and  at  last  its  marriage,  alas  !  it  is  only  to 
have  new  fears,  new  quivering  sensibilities,  with 
every  day  ;  and  the  health  of  your  children's 
children  grows  as  touching  a  concern  as  that  of 

your  own. 

El  Dorado. 

OCTOBER    EIGHTEENTH 

It  is  our  business  here  to  speak,  for  it  is  by  the 

tongue  that  we  multiply  ourselves  most  influen- 

tially.      To  speak  kindly,  wisely,  and  pleasantly 

is  the  first  of  duties,  the  easiest  of  duties,  and 

the  duty  that  is  most  blessed  in  its  performance. 

For  it   is  natural,  it  whiles  away  life,  it  spreads 

intelligence;  and  it  increases  the  acquaintance  of 

man  with  man. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

OCTOBER    NINETEENTH 

A  good  man  or  woman  may  keep  a  youth  some 
little  while  in  clearer  air;  but  the  contemporary 
atmosphere  is  all  powerful  in  the  end  on  the 
average  of  mediocre  characters. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

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OCTOBER    TWENTIETH 

The  true  ignorance  is  when  a  man  does  not 
know  that  he  has  received  a  good  gift,  or  begins 
to  imagine  that  he  has  got  it  for  himself. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 


OCTOBER    TWENTY-FIRST 

It  is  the  particular  cross  of  parents  that  when 
the  child  grows  up  and  becomes  himself  instead 
of  that  pale  ideal  they  had  preconceived,  they 
must  accuse  their  own  harshness  or  indulgence 
for  this  natural  result.  They  have  all  been  like 
the  duck  and  hatched  swan's  eggs,  or  the  other 
way  about;  yet  they  tell  themselves  with  miser- 
able penitence  that  the  blame  lies  with  them  ; 
and  had  they  sat  more  closely,  the  swan  would 
have  been  a  duck,  and  home-keeping  in  spite  of 

all. 

Parent  and  Child. 


OCTOBER    TWENTY-SECOND 

Not  all  men  can  read  all  books  ;  it  is  only  in  a 
chosen  few  that  any  man  will  lind  his  appointed 
food  ;  and  the  fittest  lessons  are  the  most  palnt- 
ablc,  and  make  themselves  welcome  to  the  mind. 

Buoks  nvfiic/i  have  Infiuemed  me. 


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OCTOBF.R    TWENTY-THIRD 

Tile  existence  of  a  man  is  so  small  a  thing  to 
take,  so  mighty  a  thing  to  employ  ! 

The  Suicide  Club. 

OCTOBER    TWENTY-FOURTH 

To  love  playthings  well  as  a  child,  to  lead  an 
adventurous  and  honourable  youth,  and  to  settle 
when  the  time  arrives,  into  a  green  and  smiling 
age,  is  to  be  a  good  artist  in  life  and  deserve 
well  of  yourself  and  your  neighbour. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

OCTOBER    TWENTY-FIFTH 

Times  are  changed  with  him  who  marries ;  there 

are  no  more  by-path  meadows,  where  you  may 

innocently    linger,  but   the   road    lies    long   and 

straight  and  dusty  to  the  grave.      Idleness  which 

is  often  becoming  and  even  wise  in  the  bachelor, 

begins  to  wear  a  different  aspect  when  you  have 

a  wife  to  support. 

Virgintbus  Puerisque. 

OCTOBER    TWENTY-SIXTH 

Samuel  Johnson,  although  he  was  very  sorry  to 
be  poor,  "  was  a  great  arguer  for  the  advantages 
of  poverty "  in  his  ill  days.  Thus  it  is  that 
brave  men  carry  their  crosses,  and  smile  with 
the   fox   burrowing   in    their   vitals. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Franfois  Villon. 

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OCTOBER    TWENTY-SEVENTH 

To  be   truly   happy   is    a    question   of   how  we 

begin  and  not  of  how  we  end,  of  what  we  want 

and  not  of  what  we  have. 

El  Dorado. 

OCTOBER    TWENTY-EIGHTH 

When  people  take  the  trouble  to  do  dignified 
acts,  it  is  worth  while  to  take  a  little  more,  and 
allow  the  dignity  to  be  common  to  all  concerned. 

On  the  Sombre  Canalized. 

OCTOBER    TWENTY-NINTH 

Good  talk  is  dramatic;   it  is  like  an  impromptu 

piece    of   acting    where    each    should    represent 

himself  to  the  greatest   advantage;  and  that  is 

the  best  kind  of  talk  where  each  speaker  is  most 

fully  and   candidly   himself,  and   where,   if  you 

were  to  shift  the   speeches   round   from  one  to 

another,   there    would    be    the   greatest   loss   in 

significance    and    perspicuity. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 

OCTOBER    THIRTIETH 

There  is  no  duty  we  so  much  underrate  as  the 
duty  of  being  happy.  By  bcnig  happy,  we  sow 
anonymous  benefits  upon  the  world,  which  re- 
main unknown  even  to  ourselves,  or  when  they 
arc  disclosed,  surprise  nobody   so   much   as  the 

benefactor. 

/In  Apology  for  Idlers. 

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OCTOBER     rillRTY-FIRST 

To   live  is    sometimes   very   difficult,   but    it    is 

never  meritorious   in  itself;  and  we  must   have 

a  reason  to  allege  to  our  own  conscience  why 

we  should  continue  to  exist  upon  this  crowded 

earth. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 


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NOVEMBER 


NOVEMBER    FIRST 

HOPE  lives  on  ignorance;  open-eyed  Faith  is 
built  upon  a  knowledge  of  our  life,  of  the 
tyranny  of  circumstance  and  the  frailtv  of  human 
resolution.  Hope  looks  for  unqualified  success; 
but  Faith  counts  certainly  on  failure,  and  takes 
honourable  defeat  to  be  a  form  of  victory. 

Firginibtts  Puerisqtte. 

NOVEMBER  SECOND 

Men  who  are  in  any  way  typical  of  a  stage  of 

progress    may   be  compared    more  justly   to  the 

hand  upon  the  dial  of  the  clock,  which  continues 

to  advance  as  it  indicates,  than  to  the  stationary 

milestone,  which  is  only  the  measure  of  what  is 

past. 

Victor  Hugo's  Romances. 

NOVEMBER    THIRD 

Over  the  far  larj/fr  proportion  of  the  field  of 
literature,  the  health  or  disease  of  the  wi  iter's 
mind  (jr  momentarv  liinnour  forms  not  oiil\  the 
leading  feature  of  his  woik,  but  is,  at  bottom, 
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the  only  thing  he  can  communicate  to  others. 
In  all  works  of  art,  widely  speaking,  it  is  iirst 
of  all  the  author's  attitude  that  is  narrated,  though 
in  the  attitude  there  be  implied  a  whole  experi- 
ence and  a  theory  of  life. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

NOVEMBER    FOURTH 

Passion,  wisdom,  creative  force,  the  power  of 
mystery  or  colour,  are  allotted  in  the  hour  of 
birth,  and  can  be  neither  learnt  nor  simulated. 

A  Note  on  Realism. 

NOVEMBER    FIFTH 

Surely,  of  all  smells  in  the  world  the  smell  of 
many  trees  is  the  sweetest  and  most  fortifying. 
The  sea  has  a  rude  pistolling  sort  of  odour,  that 
takes  you  in  the  nostrils  like  snufF,  and  carries 
with  it  a  fine  sentiment  of  open  water  and  tall 
ships  ;  but  the  smell  of  a  forest,  which  comes 
nearest  to  this  in  tonic  quality,  surpasses  it  by 
many  degrees  in  the  quality  of  softness.  Again, 
the  smell  of  the  sea  has  little  variety,  but  the 
smell  of  a  forest  is  infinitely  changeful ;  it  varies 
with  the  hour  of  the  day,  not  in  strength  merely, 
but  in  character  ;  and  the  different  sorts  of  trees, 
as  you  go  from  one  zone  of  the  wood  to  an- 
other, seem    to   live   among   different    kinds  of 

atmosphere. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 

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NOVF.MBER    SIXTH 

If  a  mail  works  hearty  in  the  order  of  nature,  he 

gets  bread  and  he  receives  comfort,  and  whatever 

he  touches  breeds. 

Prince  Errant. 

NOVEMBER  SEVENTH 

No  fate  is  altogether  easy;  but  trials  are  our 
touchstone,  trials  overcome  our  reward. 

Memoir  of  Fleming  Jeenkin. 

NOVEMBER    EIGHTH 

We  are  not  all  patient  Grizzels,  by  good  fortune, 

but  the  most  of  us  human  beings  with  feelings 

and  tempers  of  our  own. 

Nurses. 

NOVEMBER    NINTH 

Happiness,  at  least,  is  not  solitary  ;  it  joys  to 
communicate;  it  loves  others,  for  it  depends  on 
them  for  its  existence;  it  sanctions  and  encour- 
ages to  all  delights  that  are  not  unkind  in  them- 
selves ;  if  it  lived  to  a  thousand,  it  would  not 
make  excision  of  a  single  humorous  passage ; 
and  while  the  self-improver  dwindles  toward  the 
prig,  and,  if  he  be  not  of  an  excellent  constitu- 
tion, may  even  grow  deformed  into  ;in  Ohcr- 
mann,  the  very  name  and  appearance  of  a  happy 
man   breathe  of  good   nature,  and    help  the  rest 

of  us  to  live. 

Familiar  Studies —  Thoreau. 

L    '"3  J 


NOVEMBER    TENTH 

It  must  always  be  foul  to  tell  what  is  false;  and 
it  can  never  be  safe  to  suppress  what  is  true. 
The  very  fact  that  you  omit  may  be  what  some- 
body was  wanting,  for  one  man's  meat  is  another 

man's  poison. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

NOVEMBER    ELEVENTH 

There  is  only  one  way  to  be  honest,  and  the 

name  of  that  is  thrift. 

Admiral  Guinea. 


NOVEMBER    TWELFTH 

Marriage  is  like  life  in  this  —  that  it  is  a  field 
of  battle,  and  not  a  bed  of  roses. 

Virginibus  Puertsque. 

NOVEMBER    THIRTEENTH 

Pleasures  are  more  beneficial  than  duties  because, 
like  the  quality  of  mercy,  they  are  not  strained, 
and  they  are  twice  blest.  There  must  always 
be  two  to  a  kiss,  and  there  may  be  a  score  in  a 
jest;  but  wherever  there  is  an  element  of  sacri- 
fice, the  favour  is  conferred  with  pain,  and, 
among  generous  people,  received  with  confusion. 

An  Apology  fur  Idlers. 


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NOVEMBER   FOURTEENTH 

Literature,  like  any  other  art,  is  singularly  inter- 
esting to  the  artist;  and  in  a  degree  peculiar  to 
itself  among  the  arts,  it  is  useful  to  mankind. 
These  are  the  sufficient  justifications  for  any 
young    man   or   woman  who  adopts    it    as   the 

business  of  his  life. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

NOVEMBER    FIFTEENTH 

The  result  is  the  reward  of  actions,  not  the  test. 
The  result  is  a  child  born  ;  if  it  be  beautiful  and 
healthy,  well  -,  if  club-footed  or  crook-back,  per- 
haps well  also.      We  cannot  direct. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

NOVEMBER    SIXTEENTH 

Humble  or  even  truckling  virtue  may  walk  un- 
spotted in  this  life.  But  only  those  who  despise 
the  pleasures  can  afford  to  despise  the  opinion  of 

the  world. 

Familiar  Studies — Franfois  Villon. 

NOVEMBER    SEVENTEENTH 

Our  life  about  us  lies 
O'erscrawlcd  with  crooked  writ-,   we  toil  in  vain 
To  hear  the  hymn  of  ancient  harmonics 
That  quire  upon  the  mountain  or  the  plain; 
And  from  the  august  silence  of  the  skies 
Babble  of  speech  returns  to  us  again. 

Tfie  Arabesque. 

L    '05    1 


NOVEMBER    EIGHTEENTH 

To  wash  in  one  of  God's  rivers  in  the  open  air 

seems   to  mc   a   sort   of   cheerful    solemnity   or 

semi-pagan  act  of  worsliip.       To  dabble  among 

dishes    in  a  bedroom   may  perhaps   make  clean 

the  body  ;   but  the  imagination  takes  no  share  in 

such  cleansing. 

Tra-uels  'juith  a  Donkey. 

NOVEMBER    NINETEENTH 

The  more  he  is  alone  with   nature,  the  greater 

man  and  his  doings  bulk  in  the  consideration  of 

his  fellow-men. 

Toils  and  Pleasures. 

NOVEMBER    TWENTIETH 

The  nearer  you  come  to  it,  you  see  that  death 
is  a  dark  and  dusty  corner,  where  a  man  gets 
into  his  tomb  and  has  the  door  shut  after  him 
till  the  judgment  day. 

The  Sire  de  Mal'etroifs  Door. 

NOVEMBER   TWENTY-FIRST 

There  are  two  duties  incumbent  upon  any  man 
who  enters  on  the  business  of  writing  :  truth  to 
the  fact  and  a  good  spirit  in  the  treatment.  In 
every  department  of  literature,  though  so  low  as 
hardly  to  deserve  the  name,  truth  to  the  fact  is 
of  importance  to  the  education  and  comfort  of 

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mankind,  and  so  hard  to  preserve,  that  the  faith- 
ful trying  to  do  so  will  lend  some  dignity  to  the 

man  who  tries  it. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

NOVEMBER   TWENTY-SECOND 

Where  youth  agrees  with  age,  not  where  they 

differ,  wisdom  lies;   and   it   is  when   the   young 

disciple  finds  his  heart  to  beat  in  tune  with  his 

gray-bearded    teacher's    that    a    lesson    may    be 

learned. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 

NOVEMBER    TWENTY-THIRD 

The  bodv  is  a  house  of  many  windows:  there 
we  all  sit,  showing  ourselves  and  crying  on  the 
passers-by  to  come  and  love  us. 

Virginibus  Pucrisque. 

NOVEMBER    TWENTY-FOURTH 

There  are  not  three  ways  of  getting  money  : 
there  are  but  two  :    to  earn  and  steal. 

Of  Lo've  and  Politics. 

NOVEMBER    TWENTY-FIFTH 

Wc  are  different  with  different  friends  ;  yet  if  we 
look  closely  wc  shall  find  that  every  such  relation 
reposes  on  some  particular  apotheosis  of  oneself ; 
with  each  friend, although  we  could  not  distinguish 
it  in  words  from  any  other,  we  have  at  least  one 

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special  reputation  to  preserve :  and  it  is  thus 
that  wc  run,  when  mortified,  to  our  friend  or  the 
woman  that  wc  love,  not  to  hear  ourselves  called 
better,  but  to  be  better  men  in  point  of  fact. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 

NOVEMBER    TWENTY-SIXTH 

We  live  the  time  that  a  match  flickers  ;  we  pop 
the  cork  of  a  ginger-beer  bottle,  and  the  earth- 
quake swallows  us  on  the  instant.  Is  it  not 
odd,  is  it  not  incongruous,  is  it  not,  in  the  high- 
est sense  of  human  speech,  incredible,  that  we 
should  think  so  highly  of  the  ginger-beer,  and 
regard  so  little  the  devouring  earthquake  ? 

Aes  Triplex. 

NOVEMBER    TWENTY-SEVENTH 

When  you  have  married  your  wife,  you  would 
think  you  were  got  upon  a  hilltop,  and  might  be- 
gin to  go  downward  by  an  easy  slope.  But  you 
have  only  ended  courting  to  begin  marriage. 

El  Dorado. 

NOVEMBER    TWENTY-EIGHTH 

A  man  may  practise  resignation  all  his  days, 
as  he  takes   physic,  and  not  come  to  like  it  in 

the  end. 

Prince  Errant. 

[   io8  ] 


NOVEMBER    TWENTY-NINTH 

To  take  home  to  your  hearth  that  living  witness 
whose  blame  will  most  affect  you,  to  eat,  to 
sleep,  to  live  with  your  most  admiring  and  thence 
most  exacting  judge,  is  not  this  to  domesticate 
the  living  God  ?  Each  becomes  a  conscience  to 
the  other,  legible  like  a  clock  up  on  the  chimney- 
piece.  Each  offers  to  his  mate  a  figure  of  the 
consequence  of  human  acts.  And  while  I  may 
still  continue  by  my  inconsiderate  or  violent  life 
to  spread  far-reaching  havoc  throughout  man's 
confederacy,  I  can  do  so  no  more,  at  least,  in 
i<rnorancc  and  levitv  ;  one  face  shall  wince  be- 
fore  me  in  the  flesh  ;  I  have  taken  home  the 
sorrows  I  create  to  mv  own  hearth  and  bed ; 
and  though  I  continue  to  sin,  it   must  be  now 

with   open   eyes. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

NOVEMBER    THIRTIETH 

What   is  care?   impiety.     Joy?   the  whole  duty 

of  man. 

Macaire. 


L  '09  J 


'^mdm^^p-'^^'^ 


DECEMBER 


DECEMBER  FIRST 

TT  is  a  poor  heart,  and  a  poorer  age,  that  can- 
"^  not  accept  the  conditions  of  life  with  some 
heroic   readiness. 

familiar  Studies  —  Franfois  Fillon. 

DECEMBER    SECOND 

Never  allow  your  mind  to  dwell  on  your  own 
misconduct  :  that  is  ruin.  The  conscience  has 
morbid  sensibilities ;  it  must  be  employed  but 
not  indulged,  like  the  imagination  or  the  stomach. 
Let  each  stab  suffice  for  the  occasion  ;  to  play 
with  this  spiritual  pain  turns  to  penance;  and  a 
person  easily  learns  to  feel  good  by  dallying  with 
the  consci<jusncss  of  having  done  wrong, 

Rejlections  anJ  Remarks. 

DECEMBER     TiURD 

The  cruellest  lies  arc  often  told  in  silence.  A 
man  may  have  sat  in  a  room  for  hours  and  nt)t 
opened  his  teeth,  and  yet  come  out  of  that  room 
a  disloyal  friend  or  a  vile  calumniator.  .  .  .  And 
again,  a   lie   may  be  told   by  a   tiutli,  oi  a  tiuth 

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conveyed  thioiigh  a   lie.      Truth  to  facts  is  not 

always  truth  to  sentiment ;  and  part  of  the  truth, 

as  often  happens  in  answer  to  a  question,  may 

be  the  foulest  calumny. 

Virginibus  Piierisque. 


DECEMBER    FOURTH 

The  desire  to  please,  to  shine  with  a  certain 
softness  of  lustre  and  to  draw  a  fascinating 
picture  of  oneself,  banishes  from  conversation  all 
that  is  sterling  and  most  of  what  is  humorous. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 


DECEMBER    FIFTH 

It  is  in  virtue  of  his  own  desires  and  curiosities 

that    any    man    continues    to    exist    with    even 

patience,  that    he    is  charmed    by  the    look   of 

things  and    people,  and    that    he  wakens  every 

morning  with  a  renewed  appetite  for  work  and 

pleasure.      Desire  and  curiosity  are  the  two  eyes 

throu":h  which   he   sees  the  world   in   the  most 

enchanted  colours  :   it  is  they  that  make  women 

beautiful   or    fossils    interesting :    and    the    man 

may  squander  his  estate  and  come  to  beggary, 

but  if  he  keeps  these  two  amulets  he  is  still  rich 

in  the  possibilities  of  pleasure. 

El  Dorado. 


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DECEMBER    SIXTH 

You    may   have  a  head    knowledge    that    other 

people  live  more  poorly  than  yourself,  but  it  is 

not  agreeable  —  I  was  going  to  say,  it  is  against 

the    etiquette  of   the   universe  —  to    sit    at    the 

same   table   and    pick    your    own    superior   diet 

from  among  their  crusts. 

An  htlnnd  Voyage. 

DECEMBER    SEVENTH 

Courage  is  the  principal  virtue,  for  all  the  others 

presuppose  it.      If  you  arc  afraid,  you   may   do 

anything.     Courage  is  to  be  cultivated,  and  some 

of  the  negative  virtues  may  be  sacrificed  in  the 

cultivation. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

DECEMBER    EIGHTH 

After    a   good   woman,  and   a  good   book,  and 

tobacco,  there  is  nothing  so  agreeable  on   earth 

as  a  river. 

Doivn  the  O'tse. 

DECEMBER    NINTH 

A  man  docs  not  only  reflect  upon  what  he 
might  have  done  in  a  future  that  is  never  to  be 
his  ;  but  iicholding  himself  so  early  a  deserter 
from  the  fight,  he  cats  his  heart  for  the  good  he 
might  have  done  already.  To  have  been  so 
useless  and  now  to  lose  all  hope  of  being  useful 
any  more  —  there  it  is  that  death  and  memory 

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assail  him.      And  even  if  mankind  shall  go  on, 

founding  heroic  cities,  practising  heroic  virtues, 

rising  steadily  from  strength  to  strength;  even 

if  his  work  shall  be  fulfilled,  his  friends  consoled, 

his  wife   remarried    by  a   better  than   he ;    how 

shall  this  alter,  in  one  jot,  his  estimation   of  a 

career    which    was    his    only    business    in    this 

world,  which  was  so  fitfully  pursued,  and  which 

is  now  so  ineffectively  to  end  ? 

Ordered  South. 

DECEMBER    TENTH 

That  many  of  us  lead  such  lives  as  they  would 
heartily  disown  after  two  hour-s  serious  reflec- 
tion on  the  subject  is,  I  am  afraid,  a  true,  and,  I 
am  sure,  a  very  galling  thought. 

Familiar  Studies  —  Walt  Whitman. 

DECEMBER    ELEVENTH 

There  is  not  a  life  in  all  the  records  of  the  past 

but,  properly  studied,  might  lend  a   hint  and   a 

help  to  some  contemporary. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

DECEMBER    TWELFTH 

It  is  better  to  lose  health  like  a  spendthrift  than 

to  waste   it   like   a  miser.      It   is  better  to  live 

and  be  done  with  it,  than   to  die  daily  in    the 

sickroom. 

Aes  Triplex. 

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DECEMBER    THIRTEENTH 

Because  I  have  reached  Paris,  I  am  not  ashamed 

of  having  passed  through  Newhaven  and  Dieppe. 

They  were   very  good    places  to   pass  through, 

and  I  am  none  the  less  at  my  destination.      All 

my  old  opinions  were  only  stages  on  the  wav  to 

the  one  1   now  hold,  as  itself  is  only  a  stage  on 

the  way  to  something  else. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

DECEMBER    FOURTEENTH 

A  common  sentiment  is  one  of  those  great  goods 

that  make   life  palatable   and    ever   new.      The 

knowledge  that  another  has  felt  as  we  have  felt, 

and  seen  things,  even  if  they  are  little  things,  not 

much  otherwise  than  we   have  seen  them,  will 

continue  to  the  end  to  be  one  of  life's  choicest 

pleasures. 

Roads. 

DECEMBER    FIFTEENTH 

Every  one  who  has  been  upon  a  walking  or  a 
boating  tour,  living  in  the  open  air,  with  the 
body  in  constant  exercise  and  the  mind  in 
fallow,  knows  true  ease  and  quiet.  The  irritat- 
ing action  of  the  brain  is  set  at  rest;  wc  think 
in  a  plain,  unfeverish  temper;  little  things  seem 
big  enough,  and  great  things  no  longer  portentous; 
and  the  world  is  smilingly  accepted  as  it  is. 

Familiar  Studies  —  //'<///  If  7i  it  man. 

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DECKMBER    SIXTEENTH 

Honour  can  survive  a  wound  ;   it  can  live  and 
thrive  without  a  member. 

Memories  and  Portraits. 


DECEMBER    SEVENTEENTH 

There  are  many  matters  in  which  you  may  way- 
lay Destiny,  and  bid  him  stand  and  deliver. 
Hard  work,  high  thinking,  adventurous  excite- 
ment, and  a  great  deal  more  that  forms  a  part  of 
this  or  the  other  person's  spiritual  bill  of  fare, 
are  within  the  reach  of  almost  any  one  who  can 

dare  a  little  and  be  patient. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

DECEMBER    EIGHTEENTH 

The  solitary  recoils  from  the  practice  of  life, 
shocked  by  its  unsightliness.  But  if  I  could 
only  retain  that  superfine  and  guiding  delicacy  of 
the  sense  that  grows  in  solitude,  and  still  combine 
with  it  that  courage  of  performance  which  is 
never  abashed  by  any  failure,  but  steadily  pur- 
sues its  right  and  human  design  in  a  scene  of 
imperfection,  I  might  hope  to  strike  in  the  long- 
run  a  conduct  more  tender  to  others  and  less 
humiliatino;  to  myself. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

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DECEMBER    NINETEENTH 

Marriage    is   one    long   conversation,  chequered 

by  disputes.     The  disputes  are  valueless ;    they 

but   ingrain   the  difference;  the  heroic  heart  of 

woman    prompting    her     at    once    to    nail    her 

colours  to  the  mast. 

Talk  and  Talkers. 


DECEMBER    TWENTIETH 

How  little  we  pay  our  way  in  life!  Although 
we  have  our  purses  continually  in  our  hand,  the 
better  part  of  service  goes  still  unrewarded. 

An  Inland  Voyage. 


DECEMBER    TWENTY-FIRST 

If  I  from  my  spy-hole,  looking  with  purblind 
eyes  upon  the  least  part  of  a  fraction  of  the 
universe,  yet  perceive  in  my  own  destiny  some 
broken  evidence  of  a  plan  and  some  signals  i)f 
an  overruling  goodness;  shall  I  then  be  so  wv.xA 
as  to  complain  that  all  cannot  be  deciphered  ? 
Shall  I  not  rather  wonder,  with  inlinite  and 
grateful  surprise,  that  in  so  vast  a  scheme  1 
seem  to  have  been  able  to  read,  however  little, 
and  that  that  little  was  encouraging  to  faith  ? 

Gratitude  to  God. 


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DECEMBER    TWENTY-SECOND 

You  may  safely  go  to   school  with   hope ;    but 

ere  you  marry,  should  have  learned  the  mingled 

lesson  of  the  world  :   that  dolls  are  stuffed  with 

sawdust,  and  yet  are  excellent  playthings ;  that 

hope  and  love  address  themselves  to  a  perfection 

never  realised,  and  yet,  firmly  held,  become  the 

salt  and  staff  of  life. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

DECEMBER    TWENTY-TMIRD 

Truth  in  a  relation,  truth  to  your  own  heart  and 

your  friends,  never  to  feign  or  falsify  emotion  — 

that  is  the  truth  which  makes  love  possible  and 

mankind  happy. 

Virginibus  Puerisque. 

DECEMBER   TWENTY-FOURTH 

A  child  should  always  say  what 's  true 
And  speak  when  he  is  spoken  to, 
And  behave  mannerly  at  table  : 
At  least  as  far  as  he  is  able. 

Whole  Duty  of  Children. 

DECEMBER   TWENTY-FIFTH 

The  nearer  the  intimacy,  the  more  cuttingly  do 
we  feel  the  unworthiness  of  those  we  love  \  and 
because  you  love  one,  and  would  die  for  that 
love  to-morrow,  you  have  not  forgiven,  and  you 
never  will  forgive,  that  friend's  misconduct.      If 

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you  want  a  person's  faults,  go  to  those  who  love 
him.  They  will  not  tell  you,  but  they  know. 
And  herein  lies  the  magnanimous  courage  of 
love,  that    it    endures    this   knowledge  without 


change. 


Familiar  Studies  —  Thoreau. 


DECEMBER    TWENTY-SIXTH 

Doubtless  the  world  is  quite  right  in  a  million 
ways  ;  but  you  have  to  be  kicked  about  a  little 
to  convince  you  of  the  fact.  And  in  the  mean- 
while  you    must   do   something,  be  something, 

believe  something. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

DECEMBER    TWENTY-SEVENTH 

I  would  not  so  much   fear  to  give  hostages  to 

fortune,  if  fortune  ruled  only  in  material  things; 

but   fortune,  as  we  call  those  minor  and   more 

inscrutable  workings  of  providence,  rules  also  in 

the  sphere  of  conduct. 

Reflections  and  Remarks. 

DECEMBER    TWENTY-EIGHTH 

While  we  may  none  of  us,  perhaps,  be  very 
vigorous,  very  original,  or  very  wise,  I  still  con- 
tend that,  ill  the  humblest  sort  of  literary  work, 
wc  have  it  in  our  power  cither  to  do  great  harm 
or  great  good. 

Profession  of  Letters. 

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DECKMBKR    TWENTY-NINTH 

To  husband  a  favourite  claret  until  the  batch 
turns  sour,  is  not  at  all  an  artful  stroke  of  policy  ; 
and  how  much  more  with  a  whole  cellar  —  a 
whole  bodily  existence  !  People  may  lay  down 
their  lives  with  cheerfulness  in  the  sure  expecta- 
tion of  a  blessed  immortality  ;  but  that  is  a  dif- 
ferent affair  from  giving  up  youth  with  all  its 
admirable  pleasures,  in  the  hope  of  a  better 
quality  of  gruel  in  a  more  than  problematical, 
nay,  more  than  improbable,  old  age. 

Crabbed  Age  and  Youth. 

DECEMBER    THIRTIETH 

I  feel  never  quite  sure  of  your  urbane  and 
smiling  coteries  i  I  fear  they  indulge  a  man's 
vanities  in  silence,  suffer  him  to  encroach,  en- 
courage him  on  to  be  an  ass,  and  send  him  forth 
again,  not  merely  contemned  for  the  moment, 
but  radically  more  contemptible  than  when  he 

entered. 

Memories  and  Portraits. 

DECEMBER    THIRTY-FIRST 

O,  hope,  you  're  a  good  word  ! 

Admiral  Guinea. 


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